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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

24 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

food and water watch

  • By: April
    Please read Blue Gold and When the Rivers Run Dry....I am officially against the majority of desalination due to the fact that all the water we have now is all the water we will EVER have!
  • By: Rich's coworker
    In an effort to de-spin your story, the real reason there were no muffins or treats of any sort was because the bearer of treats was absent, and had been gone for the past few days. Perhaps if you "wish real hard" again, parabens can turn into magical antioxidants that are part of a complete ...
  • By: Top 50 Global Food Security Blogs
    [...] Food and Water Watch: Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. [...]
  • By: Online Degree 30 Best Water Conservation Blogs
    [...] Food & Water Watch: The Food & Water Watch site advocates strong conservation measures, promoting policies that'll result in quality drinking water for everyone. [...]
  • By: Food and Water | Roland's Ramblings
    [...] would also like to suggest you go over to read the blog of Food & Water Watch. You should find that to be very [...]

treehugger

  • Virtual Eco Fashion Shop Pops Up Online for Ea ...
    Lady Rainbow Tote by Chak Chel. Photo: courtesy Global fashion Brands While Earth Day has come and gone there are still ways to take part in Earth Month activities. Enter GlobalFashionBrands.com. They're hosting a virtual eco fashion pop-up shop some of our favorite designers, including Tom ...
  • USDA Outsources Biotech Crop Evaluation to the ...
    Photo: Giles San Martin The U.S. is already cultivating 165 million acres of genetically modified crops, up 7 million acres from just two years ago. Modified seeds and large monocultures in general, are monopolizing our nation's agriculture system like never before and crop after crop are d ...
  • A Little Earth Day Optimism: A More Empathetic ...
    As sure as Earth Day comes around every year, so too does the annual tradition of dumping on Earth Day. I did a fair share of that myself today, and other writers, like Mother Jones' Kate Sheppard, asked environmentalists to help "Unsuck Earth Day". But lest any of the incumbent gloom surrou ...
  • Take a Look at How Deep the BP Spill's Impact ...
    As we all know, there's more to the BP spill than meets the eye. The extent of the damage wasn't just the thousands of birds that got oiled -- it goes much deeper. A good way to understand just how deep it goes is to play around with NRDC's cool interactive graphic of the spill. NRDC explain ...
  • Will a Real Earth Day Movement Please Stand Up?
    Photo credit: Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan Okay, so it's Earth Day -- the day where environmentalism is celebrated with TV specials, special product offers, and well-intentioned community greening efforts. These are all nice things (but if I have to delete one more 'Gr ...

Biosingularity

  • Making Temporary Changes to Brain Could Speed ...
    In a breakthrough that may aid treatment of learning impairments, strokes, tinnitus and chronic pain, UT Dallas researchers have found that brain stimulation accelerates learning in laboratory tests. Another major finding of the study, published in the April 14 issue of Neuron, involved tracking ...
  • Strategic Plan for NIH Obesity Research
  • Evolution of human ‘super-brain’ t ...
    Scientists seeking to understand the origin of the human mind may want to look to honeybees — not ancestral apes — for at least some of the answers, according to a University of Colorado Boulder archaeologist. CU-Boulder Research Associate John Hoffecker said there is abundant fossil and archaeo ...
  • Neuroscientists discover new ‘chemical p ...
    A team of neuroscientists at the University of Leicester, UK, in collaboration with researchers from Poland and Japan, has announced a breakthrough in the understanding of the ‘brain chemistry’ that triggers our response to highly stressful and traumatic events. The discovery of a critical and p ...
  • What’s your intestinal bacteria type?
    As partners in the international research consortium named MetaHit, scientists from the University of Copenhagen have contributed to show that an individual’s intestinal bacteria flora, regardless of nationality, gender and age, organises itself in certain clusters. The cluster of intestinal bac ...

CFACT

  • Fears & facts about nuclear power
    Lessons from Fukushima for America’s already safe nuclear plants.
  • Virginia eyes eminent domain reform
    Six years after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its highly controversial Kelo v. City of New London decision, efforts to reign in the power of eminent domain continue to roll across the nation.
  • The anti-energy EPA
    Proposed EPA rules will do more harm than good for human health, especially for minorities.
  • The Japan nuclear emergency in context
    The Fukushima nuclear power plants survived the onslaught well, and we learned a great deal. The lessons learned will be shared with the rest of the world to the betterment of all. Current designs could withstand even this worst-case scenario. Nuclear power remains, safe, viable and vital.
  • I have a dream for a prosperous Uganda
    Developing Uganda’s oil and gas resources will create opportunity and prosperity.

Ria Novosti Online News

  • No let-up in Misurata shelling despite army 'h ...
    Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi bombarded the rebel-held port city of Misurata on Sunday despite government claims the army halted its operations.
  • Yemeni protests demand Saleh quit immediately ...
    Protesters in Yemen are calling for the immediate departure of President Ali Abdullah Saleh despite a transition plan brokered by Persian Gulf nations under which he would step down.
  • Moscow's Butovo shooting range unites Christia ...
    In an unprecedented move for the Russian Orthodox Church, several Moscow parishes hosted this Easter season over 200 pilgrims from Western Europe - both Roman Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox - who came to Russia to experience the Holy Week and Easter in the Orthodox communities, to discover ...
  • Moscow's Butovo shooting range unites Christia ...
    To the uninitiated, there is nothing particularly spiritual about the neglected Butovo region in the south of Moscow. But there are few places where Chrisitanity’s defining miracle can be felt as deeply than at the region’s church, which was literally built on the bones of victims of Stalin’s te ...
  • Orthodox Christians mark Easter Day at Moscow’ ...
    Russian believers filled the Church of Christ the Savior in Moscow, where Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia led the candle-lit Easter vigil.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. By the way, want to know why I link to the Iranian state news agency for drone reporting? Because it’s less biased than the New York Time ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Spc. Joseph A. Kennedy, 25, of St. Paul, MN.Army Spc. Donald L. Nichols, 21, of Shell Rock, IA.Ar ...
  • 'No On SB 5': Upcoming events, 12-Apr-2011
    Lots coming up starting this weekend. OCSEA has a list of places to get training here. More details to come. For those near Shaker Heights:Thursday, April 145:00 - 7:00 pmShaker HeightsRally for Our RightsWhere: 12601 Shaker BoulevardOur Lady of Peace ChurchNorth side of Shaker Blvd just 4 bl ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. Some views from over there here, here and here. Just because we aren’t paying attention doesn’t mean no one else is.Combat operations ha ...
  • Microsoft Access imports and Kathy Nickolaus
    (Click on all images to enlarge.)Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus (emph. added):On election night, all the people that were to bring in spreadsheets, they were given a spreadsheet template. They were asked not to change that template. When the city of Brookfield results came in on election ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Europe Scorns Supersalmon as GM Battle Widens
    "We don't have any monster pigs in Europe, or monster cows, and there's no need for such a salmon," said Geir Isaksen, the chief executive at big Norwegian fish farmer Cermaq.Click here to read this article
  • Organic Agriculture: Deeply Rooted in Science ...
    Organic farming is often falsely represented as being unscientific. However, despite the popular assumption that it sprang full born from the delusions of 60s hippies, it has a more extensive, and scientifically respectable, provenance. If you look back at the first flush of notoriety in the 194 ...
  • Ireland Says Not In This Country: Bans Genetic ...
    Prince Charles has called it the "biggest environmental disaster of all time," while Monsanto and others maintain it's safe for humans and the environment. Genetically modified foods are a contentious issue, but Ireland is erring on the side of caution, placing a ban on growing any genetically ...
  • Largest Organic Milk Bottler, Horizon, Accused ...
    The Cornucopia Institute filed a formal request with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today, asking for an investigation into Dean Foods' advertisements for its Horizon milk with Omega-3 DHA, alleging the nation's largest dairy conglomerate with consumer fraud in misrepresenting the nutritiona ...
  • Permaculture Shows Us the Path to a Backyard R ...
    People nowadays are feeling like their lives are spinning out of control. They worry about being able to provide the necessities for their families as food and fuel prices soar and out of control inflation looms on the horizon. Many are almost totally disconnected from nature and that which sust ...

Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoki ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

  • Opposition to Drone Use in Libya
    by Michael W. Lewis by Michael W. Lewis Ken’s post and the comments following it display an understanding that drones are particularly well suited to this mission because their longer loiter time makes them more discriminating and therefore more capable of proportional strikes than manned air ...
  • Opposition to Drone Use in Libya
    by Michael W. Lewis by Michael W. Lewis Ken’s post and the comments following it display an understanding that drones are particularly well suited to this mission because their longer loiter time makes them more discriminating and therefore more capable of proportional strikes than manned air ...
  • Faculty Positions at Melbourne Law School
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller My school is once again advertising for new faculty at all levels, from Lecturer to Professor.  Note the short deadline: applications must be in by April 27.  Here is the job description: Melbourne Law School, Australia’s first all-graduate law facult ...
  • Transparency and the Closure of Gaza
    by Sari Bashi by Sari Bashi Sari Bashi is the Executive Director of Gisha, an Israeli NGO that protects the freedom of movement of Palestinians, especially Gaza residents. While many in the international community were unsure how to interpret Richard Goldstone’s Washington Post op ed earlier ...
  • Hastings Law De-Sponsors Palestinian Conferenc ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The San Francisco Chronicle has the story: The conference, titled “Litigating Palestine,” took place at the San Francisco campus March 25 and 26. The 13 speakers - four of them Jewish, according to a school official - discussed legal issues and court ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • I See You - Avatar
    can we forgive one another for all our differences and honour the light of the soul? Do we really see one another? I See You... Submitted by EarthSpirit Angel to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Wolves, political stupidity, and fear-mongerin ...
    345 people had been killed in Canada and the U.S. between 1989 and 2009 by domestic dogs. At that point, only one person in the same vast geographic area had been killed by wolves � Kenton Carnegie. Yet Idaho is saying wolves kill people!Submitted by Maggie S. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • Thinking like an Avon Lady to get suburban w ...
    Lisa Margonelli writes about a program at a suburban California office park that has had huge success in encouraging workers to leave the car at home Submitted by John Farnham to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Mosaic sells solar panels to people who dont ...
    Community microfunding energy cooperativesSubmitted by John Farnham to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The Military's Secret Shame
    When men in the military rape other men in the ranks, no one wants to talk about it. Why the sexual assault of males in the service is finally being confronted. Submitted by David Buchan to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • PressTV - ElBaradei urges ICC trial of Bush
    PressTV - ElBaradei urges ICC trial of Bush: "Former IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei says former US President George W. Bush and his administration's officials should be put on trial in the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Pakistan: CIA drone kills 25 on eve of mass pr ...
    Pakistan: CIA drone kills 25 on eve of mass protest against US missile strikes: "By Keith Jones 23 April 2011A US predator drone strike killed 25 people in the village of Spinwam in North Waziristan... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Palestinian Pundit: Ghosts will haunt Libya fo ...
    Palestinian Pundit: Ghosts will haunt Libya for decades: "All this matters because the exaggeration of the rebels' military strength has led to a misunderstanding of Nato's involvement. Barack Obama,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Palestine Video: Arrests, Injuries, Bullets, S ...
    Palestine Video: Arrests, Injuries, Bullets, Sound Grenades, and Teargas at the NABI SALEH Demo 22-4-2011 النبي صالح.: "'On Friday, 16 civilians were injured and four abducted as Israeli troops... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • tehran times : Gül warns Israel against becomi ...
    tehran times : G�l warns Israel against becoming ‘apartheid island’: "In an opinion article published on Wednesday in The New York Times, G�l called on Israel to take up a “strategic mindset” in the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • New concerns over swine flu jab after children ...
    ShareThisNew concerns over swine flu jab after children given it 'hit by sudden sleep syndrome' --Seven reported cases of narcolepsy in UK linked to GlaxoSmithKline vaccine 23 Apr 2011 A swine flu vaccine which has been given to thousands of children in Britain may cause the sleep disorder narco ...
  • TSA airport screener charged in distributing c ...
    ShareThisTSA airport screener charged in distributing child pornography --Homeland Security agents arrested the TSA officer March 24, and he is being held without bail. 23 Apr 2011 A passenger screener at Philadelphia International Airport is facing charges that he distributed more than 100 imag ...
  • Protesters arrested outside upstate NY drone base
    ShareThisProtesters arrested outside upstate NY drone base 22 Apr 2011 A protest against armed military drones operated from an upstate New York air base has led to a number of arrests. WSYR-TV in Syracuse reports that about 30 people were charged with minor violations during the demonstration o ...
  • Bomb kills 5 border police in southern Afghanistan
    ShareThisBomb kills 5 border police in southern Afghanistan 22 Apr 2011 At least five border policemen were killed and one wounded when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in the southern province of Kandahar, officials said Friday. "The incident happened in the border town of Spin Boldak late ...
  • Five oil tankers torched in N. Afghanistan
    ShareThisFive oil tankers torched in N. Afghanistan 22 Apr 2011 Armed militants attacked fuel tankers supplying oil to NATO-led troops and torched five vehicles in Baghlan province, some 160 km north of capital city of Kabul, a local official said Friday. "A group of militants opened fire on a l ...

Daily Loaf

  • 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
    I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
  • Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
    Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  ...
  • D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
    Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
  • Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
    The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
  • Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
    April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: L-Histidine, Squaline, & Human Chorionic ...
    “Vaccination is a monstrosity, a misbegotten offspring of error and ignorance; it should have no place in either hygiene or medicine. Believe not in vaccination, it is a world wide delusion, an unscientific practice, a fatal superstition with consequences measured today by tears and sorrow ...
  • VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix – A Legacy Of Shame
    The headlines alone tell the whole story. ‘Teenage girl left brain-damaged  after receiving cervical cancer jab‘, ‘Thousands of UK schoolgirls have suffered adverse reactions…several reported multiple reactions’, ‘20,575 adverse reactions, 352 reports of abnormal pap smears post vaccinati ...
  • VRM: Dr. Wakefield’s Imminent Vindicatio ...
    Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 Study demonstrated “anti-myelin antibodies and digestive tract pathologies in children with autism after being given the Urabi strain triple live virus MMR vaccine. All 12 children in the Study had intestinal abnormalities (known as Inflammatory Bowel Disease), with c ...
  • VRM: A Concise Compendium The Problem With Vac ...
    The advent of cloned DNA vaccines & Synthetic Genomics, backed by proponents of the Trans-humanist & Bioethics movements (this is a post-Darwinian view, in which the species has the power to direct its own evolution), has opened a Pandora’s Box spelling the inevitable death of natural immunity. ...
  • VRM: Medical Industry Data Proves Influenza Va ...
    The Influenza virus itself is constantly mutating from year to year. While mainstream doctors are traditionally divided, several prominent Studies have come forward in recent years challenging the Status Quo on the efficacy of the sacrosanct Flu shot & awakened an increasingly distrustf ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury fe ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal f ...

Michael Yon

  • The Mysterious Well: Part II of II
    Axe Handle Cam Events from Farah Province, Afghanistan Published 24 April 2011 The previous dispatch ended with Kris LeBoutillier lowering his camera into the mysterious well at Kafir Qala, which is believed to be more than 2,000 years old. The depth and contents of the ancient well were unkn ...
  • Important Message From Libya
    22 April 2011 I�ve been reading traffic from a private worldwide group regarding the sad loss of journalists Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington in Libya.� The people discussing the loss include names you sometimes see on national television, in books, and so on and so forth.� The bylaws of the ...
  • The Mysterious Well
    Kak Kohzad 21 April 2011 In Afghanistan, there is a mysterious and ancient well.� Nobody knew how deep it was, or what might be down there, but some locals thought it might contain bones of their ancestors.� My friend Steve Shaulis came upon the well while working in Farah Province, and decide ...
  • After Action Report - Visit Columbia March 2011
    Please click to view the entire report.
  • Alexander the Great
    Sunrise over Farah 07 April 2011 Afghanistan contains many treasures of ancient history.�� Climate conditions here preserve old structures whose origins often remain a mystery. Alexander stormed through here a thousand years before the Arabs introduced Islam.� Today, after travelling arou ...

The Killing Train

  • Today's election thoughts
    Today's election thoughts, and a couple of photos. Jon Elmer sent me this amusing Vintage Voter site. Vincent Pang sent me this photo album of protests against Harper's second proroguing back in 2010. read more
  • 36% is apparently a majority, but not for a wh ...
    The daily polling is suspicious. Every day the media publishes what the electoral outcome is going to be. And every day it changes. They keep saying there's going to be a Harper majority. Saying it won't make it so, but it might contribute to it. Earlier today I saw an article on CityTV.ca throu ...
  • Canadians are annoyed - deliberation vs. engin ...
    Pollsters now get people to press buttons about how they are feeling as they watch debates, and have discovered that Canadians are annoyed. This then feeds back to politicians, who try to, presumably, be less annoying, or, perhaps, try to blame other politicians for the annoyance. read more
  • I went over my twitter limit...
    So I'm just going to make a few notes: -Ignatieff was right when he says Harper's offering "fantasy economics". He also answered the financial question directly. And Harper seemed to make eye contact for the first time. And then went back to the camera. Harper: "Every credible economic analyst" ...
  • Cancer is sexy
    I don't have a TV, so I just checked if my livestreaming CBC is working and it seems to be, so I will be able to watch the debate tonight. Two chapters left to go in Lawrence Martin's "Harperland" and I also just picked up Christian Nadeau's "Rogue in Power" yesterday and have read chapter 1. A ...

treehugger

  • Virtual Eco Fashion Shop Pops Up Online for Ea ...
    Lady Rainbow Tote by Chak Chel. Photo: courtesy Global fashion Brands While Earth Day has come and gone there are still ways to take part in Earth Month activities. Enter GlobalFashionBrands.com. They're hosting a virtual eco fashion pop-up shop some of our favorite designers, including Tom ...
  • USDA Outsources Biotech Crop Evaluation to the ...
    Photo: Giles San Martin The U.S. is already cultivating 165 million acres of genetically modified crops, up 7 million acres from just two years ago. Modified seeds and large monocultures in general, are monopolizing our nation's agriculture system like never before and crop after crop are d ...
  • A Little Earth Day Optimism: A More Empathetic ...
    As sure as Earth Day comes around every year, so too does the annual tradition of dumping on Earth Day. I did a fair share of that myself today, and other writers, like Mother Jones' Kate Sheppard, asked environmentalists to help "Unsuck Earth Day". But lest any of the incumbent gloom surrou ...
  • Take a Look at How Deep the BP Spill's Impact ...
    As we all know, there's more to the BP spill than meets the eye. The extent of the damage wasn't just the thousands of birds that got oiled -- it goes much deeper. A good way to understand just how deep it goes is to play around with NRDC's cool interactive graphic of the spill. NRDC explain ...
  • Will a Real Earth Day Movement Please Stand Up?
    Photo credit: Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan Okay, so it's Earth Day -- the day where environmentalism is celebrated with TV specials, special product offers, and well-intentioned community greening efforts. These are all nice things (but if I have to delete one more 'Gr ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • HRW urges UAE to reverse dissolution of civil ...
    [JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Friday urged [press release] the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to reverse its decision to dissolve the board of directors of a prominent civil rights group. UAE social affairs minister, Mariam Mohammed Khalfan Al-Roumi, dismi ...
  • ICC prosecutor to investigate Nigeria post-ele ...
    [JURIST] Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official websites], on Thursday announced [press release] an investigation into recent violence following national elections in Nigeria [JURIST news archive] earlier this month. The preliminary investiga ...
  • Federal appeals court reinstates case against ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] on Friday reinstated [opinion, PDF] a case against four former Blackwater [JURIST news archive] employees involved in the September 2007 shootings of 17 Iraqi civilians [JURIST report]. The US Department of ...
  • FCC petitions Supreme Court to reinstate indec ...
    [JURIST] The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) [official website] on Thursday asked [cert. petition, PDF] the US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] to reinstate an indecency policy [text] that places restrictions on profanity and nudity during television broadcasting. I ...
  • Indiana House approves amended Arizona-style i ...
    [JURIST] The Indiana House of Representatives [official website] on Thursday voted 64-32 to approve a bill [Amended SB 590 text; materials] considered to be a "watered-down" version of the Arizona immigration bill [JURIST news archive]. The amended bill proposes to revoke tax credits from busine ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Congress: Missing in Action
    Congress' silent acquiescence to President Obama's authorization of force in Libya highlights a growing problem for American constitutional government House Speakers come and go, but the last several have had one important thing in common: they haven't understood the important duties they assu ...
  • Carl Pope and the Boiled Frogs
    Yesterday I mentioned that Carl Pope, chairman of the Sierra Club, had taken the boiled frogs' name in vain as part of his Earth Day appeal. He (graciously) writes back: >>Mea culpa--I stand herpetologically corrected. I am happy to stipulate that frogs--unlik ...
  • The Last Attempt to Form an Oil Task Force
    With gas prices climbing to unsavory highs, President Obama has ordered the creation of an oil-markets task force at the Department of Justice. Questions have already been raised over whether DoJ can actually do anything to help with oil prices, or if this is more of a show move, wherein Obam ...
  • Donald Trump's Handwritten Notes to Reporters
    Of the many entertaining things about Donald Trump's (potential) 2012 presidential candidacy, the best might be his handwritten notes addressing, responding to, or otherwise dissing reporters. Trump's M.O. is to take a printed copy of an article about him, then write a personal note on it in ...
  • The Weak Attacks Against the Defense of Marria ...
    The Human Rights Campaign's misguided case against Paul Clement's law firm ignores the basic tenets behind the counsel of law The Los Angeles Times's editorial writers have it right when they point out that the Human Rights Campaign has it wrong about Congress's decision to hire Paul Clement to  ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Syria: Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution This Time?
    News from Syria is grim, with over 100 people killed after Friday prayers in mass protests against the authoritarian rule of Bashar Assad and the forty-year dynasty his family has maintained in Syrian politics.  Another 11 people were killed on Saturday at funerals for those killed on Friday.  ...
  • Memories of a Palestinian Wound
    I read a wonderful review of a new album, Baghani, by the Palestinian performer Amal Murkus that made me want to go right out and buy it–or at least listen to it.  Unfortunately, you can’t–at least not easily, since no Israeli record company is yet distributing it (it figures).  One of my Face ...
  • Tasini Files Class-Action Suit Against Huffing ...
    All I can say to Jonathan Tasini is kol ha-kavod (hat’s off to you).  Finally, someone is sticking a pin into that inflatable ego known as the Huffington Post.  It seems that when AOL bought Huffington Post a few months ago, a conservative valuation of the contribution made by the HuffPo’s 9,0 ...
  • Abusisi Story in Truthout
    I’ve just published my first piece in Truthout, which is a comprehensive account of the Dirar Abusisi extraordinary rendition.  This is the first account of its kind published anywhere outside the Ukraine (there have been previous earlier accounts by AP, the NY Times, and Der Spiegel which were ...
  • Bibi’s Futile Divide and Conquer Strategy Betw ...
    Some of you may’ve erroneously thought Bibi Netanyahu was the leader of Israel’s Likud party.  But you’d be wrong.  He’s actually a Republican representing the U.S.’s 51st state, Israel.  How else to explain the fact that Bibi has given up on having any relationship or impact on Pres. Obama a ...

Ode Magazine

  • Make your own money
    Local currencies can help create sustainable growth and healthy communities. In Detroit, cheer dollars are helping restore local economic confidence.Photo: AP Photo/The Detroit News, David Coates Communities have long needed a more sensible means to create money. To dat ...
  • Management as meditation
    How meditation helps managers make better business decisionsâand why itâs good for the bottom line. Your mind is like a wild buffalo.” This comment from a Buddhist meditation leader in Sri Lanka struck a chord. When I first heard it years ago, though, it didn’t work fo ...
  • Finding your way back to life
    Photo by Seyed Mostafa Zamani “A sorrow shared is a sorrow halved.” Believing in the wisdom of this old proverb, German tour operator TUI partnered with Private Trauer Akademie, a German “mourning academy” founded by undertaker and grief counselor Fritz Roth, to off ...
  • The age of endarkenment
    Donât leave your shadow behind when pursuing enlightenment. It’s been commonplace in the Far East for millennia, but the search for enlightenment has been snowballing recently in the West. Since “flower power” in the 1960s and the New Age movement that followed, we’ve been ...
  • No label? No problem
    Simple tips for simply nutritious food. Transparency is good. Information is handy. We have a right to know what we’re eating, and—thanks to laws requiring manufacturers to provide nutritional information—every product comes with a label summing up its ingredients and ...

OpEd News

  • Paint it Black
    If we consider what Machiavelli is trying to tell us across the centuries then we can begin to understand all that is going on around us today. If you sought to destroy a free society you would first stifle incomes of its workers. Poor people working longer hours and earning less money have litt ...
  • BP's Secret Deepwater Blowout
    You've heard and seen much about the Gulf disaster that killed 11 BP workers.If you have not heard about the earlier blowout,it's because BP has kept the full story under wraps. Nor did BP inform Congress or US safety regulators,& BP,along with its oil industry partners, have preferred to keep ...
  • Big blowout at PA gas well, threatening Susque ...
    Seven families have already been evacuated from the area, and officials have advised farmers against allowing livestock to drink from the surface water.Despite concerted efforts of crewmembers, tainted water continued to flow from the site as recently as Thursday morning.The blowout has left man ...
  • President Obama speaks on Manning and the rule ...
    The impropriety of Obama's public pre-trial declaration of Manning's guilt ("He broke the law") is both gross and manifest. How can Manning possibly expect to receive a fair hearing from military officers when their Commander-in-Chief has already decreed his guilt?
  • The Resurrection Myth / Jesus Was Divinely Hum ...
    Jesus was divinely human ~ a determined revolutionary and an evolutionary forerunner for a state of love and soul consciousness which is also deepest within each one of us. Only the church as an institution stands in the way of this common innate connection and empowering knowledge: Allen L Roland

Switchboard

  • Happy (Flat) Earth Day
    Daniel Rosenberg, Senior Attorney, Washington DC Man is but a castaway    On this planet’s shore. He survives from day to day.    Can he ask for more? Vast and intricate the store    Of his printed words. Short and simple is the lore    Of ...
  • Earth Day Approved: With Good Planning, Ocean ...
    Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco On Earth Day, it’s important to think happy thoughts -- to build resolve and bolster spirits by reflecting on progress and positive opportunities for environmental improvement and protect ...
  • With PlaNYC Update, New York City Continues to ...
    Donna DeCostanzo, Senior Attorney, New York The update to PlaNYC - New York City’s long-term plan for a sustainable future – which was released yesterday, continues to demonstrate Mayor Bloomberg’s leadership on clean energy and climate change.  T ...
  • Media scan 4/22: Earth Day's legacy, Gulf disa ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Happy Earth Day!  In an Earth911 piece, Frances Beinecke marked the 41st anniversary of Earth Day by reflecting upon environmental advances and calling for a sustained commitment to nurturing envir ...
  • It's Time to Act: From Earth Day 2011 to the ...
    Jacob Scherr, Director, Global Strategy & Advocacy, Washington, DC Today is Earth Day; and our friends at Earth Day Network are calling for “A Billion Acts of Green.”  They are encouraging each of us to take a step to save our planetary home.  You ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Colby Lewis
    Exceedingly disappointing to see Rob Neyer pick the wrong side on Colby Lewis’ choice to take a game off to participate in the birth of his second child: What if we’re talking about your favorite NFL team’s quarterback? Do you want him skipping Sunday’s big game to attend the birth of his third ...
  • The politics of birtherism
    A new CBS/NY Times poll finds that 47% of Republican voters say Barack Obama was born outside the United States. (Only a third say he was born in this country, while another 22% say they don’t know one way or another). This can be interpreted in a number of ways. Jon Chait points out that [...]
  • A Republican Legislator’s Votes Are A Pr ...
    Since I’ve seen some discussion on the Twitter today about whether Reid should force a vote on the Ryan destroy-Medicare-to-finance-upper-class-tax-cuts program (answer: “hell, yes”), I thought I’d highlight what is the very dumbest argument in the thoroughly ridiculous PoliFact piece I discusse ...
  • In Defense of the New Wildcard
    We have to start with this: MLB is not going to eliminate the wildcard. Given this, as I said at the time it seems pretty clear that a wildcard play-in game/short series is a substantial improvement over the status quo. As long as we’re stuck with the wildcard, the second-best alternative is to ...
  • New and improved Kinetic Humanitarian Interven ...
    Still not a war though. Interesting thoughts from former Pentagon analyst on the politics of drone warfare.

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI researchers work to boost consumer energy ...
    The patented software and hardware gives energy customers the power to realize energy savings. -- DRI scientists Hampden Kuhns, Ph.D. and Morien Roberts, Ph.D are empowering business owners and eventually residents to manage their energy consumption and adopt efficiency measures that will have ...
  • DRI Scientist Featured in Changing Planet Series
    NBC Learn's latest "Changing Planet" video features DRI's Dr. Joe McConnell and black carbon. Black carbon –small soot-like particles that are produced whenever fossil fuels or other organic substances are incompletely burned– is one of the leading contributors to global warming.
  • Rina Schumer Named 2011 Rising Researcher
    The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents named Dr. Rina Schumer as one of the 2011 Rising Researchers, in recognition of her early-career accomplishments and potential for future advancement. A faculty member in DHS, her current research at DR is focused on the science of s ...
  • Storm Peak Laboratory Cloud Property Validatio ...
    Scientists are busy working at DRI’s Storm Peak Lab at Steamboat Springs, Colo. gathering in-cloud measurements and also verifying the data from radars and other instrumentation that is measuring clouds at four different elevations; one site in town and three within the Steamboat Springs ...
  • Kendrick Taylor Interviewed by NPR About West ...
    By improving our understanding of how natural changes in greenhouse gas influenced climate in the past, the science community will be able to do a better job of predicting future climate changes caused by the emissions of greenhouse gases by human activity.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Disbarred Mass. attorney faces up to 20 years ...
    Massachusetts lawyer Stuart Sojcher has pleaded guilty in Boston federal court to wire fraud and money laundering charges related to a mortgage fraud scheme.
  • As Florida cities and counties settle BP claim ...
    Carl Nelson, a shareholder at Fowler White Boggs, talks to The National Law Journal about how the legal team behind the Bay County Tourist Development Council settlement obtained the agreements with BP.
  • Justices give global warming case a chilly rec ...
    Seven of the eight justices participating in oral arguments in the case of American Electric Power v. Connecticut offered comments or questions that appeared critical of the scope or concept of a suit against major utilities that claims their output of greenhouse gases is a public nuisance under ...
  • COMPLEX LITIGATION: Courts search for class ce ...
    Increasingly, they are stressing the necessity of ascertaining who the actual plaintiffs are.
  • SPECIAL REPORT: MOST INFLUENTIAL LAWYERS
    The NLJ profiles 34 lawyers in 10 categories — ADR, financial capital markets, government affairs, health care, in-house lawyers at private companies, law firm leadership, media and entertainment, real estate, trusts and estates, and white-collar crime — whose work has been so consequential that ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Video: Natural gas blow back in Bradford county
    Frac fluid spills from well for 20 hours at Chesapeake site near Canton. Fluid flowed into a creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna. For more details, see http://www.wnep.com/wnep-brad-leroy-gas-drillingemergency20110420,0,1884646.story
  • Do not discuss the chemicals – Lessons f ...
    So, I’m posting this email I received from the RDA (responsible Drilling Alliance) out of Williamsport, PA because it is full of all the things that I’ve been certain of since the gas companies and their land men showed up, but now there is actually some proof. At least it is proof enough for me ...
  • PennFuture workshop: Gas and Our Water
    Gas and Our Water: Legal tools for watershed advocates dealing with drilling in the Marcellus Shale Saturday, April 16 King’s College, Wilkes-Barre This workshop will give grassroots conservation and watershed groups, concerned citizens and volunteers the legal tools necessary to protect our wat ...
  • Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission challenged ...
    Alright, I apologize up front for this being rather lengthy but I really feel that the information being provided here and the comments below are worth reading through slowly and considering carefully when trying to figure out which side of this debate you want to fall on. I know many of you alr ...
  • Corbett names pick for Conservation and Natura ...
    Wednesday, March 23, 2011 By Laura Olson and Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette HARRISBURG – Gov. Tom Corbett announced his pick for one of two remaining cabinet posts this afternoon, selecting Richard J. Allan to head the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Mr. Allan, 57, has spen ...

News Blaze

  • Renewed Fighting Erupts on Cambodian-Thai Border
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said he is troubled by reports of renewed fighting over the past two days between Cambodian and Thai troops along the two countries' border.
  • NATO Tries to Sweet-Talk Failure
    Whilst TCG Giresun was guarding MV Hanjin Tianjin, another distress call was made by the master of an Italian Motor Vessel, Rosalia D� Amato, who reported that his ship was under attack. As the MV Hanjin Tianjin looked stable and the ship was know
  • Hindus Ask Miley Cyrus to Raise Roma Apartheid ...
    Cyrus' 'Gypsy Heart' tour, from April 29 to July two, will take her to Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Panama, Mexico, Philippines, and Australia. The live show will feature music from Cyrus' latest solo
  • UNESCO Calls for Debate to Examine Trends in B ...
    Ms. Bokova said new technologies are transforming the industry and having an impact on publishers, authors and readers.
  • Ban Condemns Ongoing Violence Against Demonstr ...
    Media reports stated that dozens of people were killed on Friday when thousands of people took to the streets in several Syria cities to call for political reforms. More violence was reported in the country in further protests today and there are re

environment 360

  • 657 New Barrier Islands Identified in Global S ...
    A new global survey of the world’s barrier islands has identified 657 more islands than previously thought, including a 54-island chain that runs along the edges of mangrove forest off the Brazilian coast. Using satellite NASABrazil's Gurupi River delta images, topographical maps and navigationa ...
  • Populations of American Pikas Going Extinct As ...
    Extinction rates of American pikas have increased nearly five-fold over the last decade within the Great Basin region of the western U.S., and the climate-sensitive species is moving to higher elevations at a rate Photo by Donald M. Jones/Minden PicturesAn American pika 11 times faster than dur ...
  • Global Market for E-Scooters and E-Motorcycles ...
    The global market for electric motorcycles and scooters is expected to surge, with the number of vehicles projected to jump from 17 million in 2011 to more than 138 million by 2017, according to a new report. The two-wheel electric vehicles, which are already popular across Asia, will become inc ...
  • Reserve to Save Asian ‘Unicorn’ Established in ...
    The government of Vietnam has created a 39,000-acre reserve to protect the elusive saola, a critically endangered two-horned antelope-like mammal known locally as the “Asian unicorn.” The saola, or Pseudoryx nghetinhensis, which is described as a primitive AP/WWFA saola member of the bovine fa ...
  • One Year Later: Assessing the Lasting Impact o ...
    On the anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, the worst fears about the long-term damage from the oil spill have not been realized. But the big challenge is more fundamental: repairing the harm from the dams, levees, and canals that are devastating the Mississippi Delta and the Louisian ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Laboratory Beauty vs. Homegrown Beauty
    Every morning millions of women wake up and enhance their looks by applying make-up. How many of these women actually know what it is they are rubbing into their skin, lips and around their eyes? For if they knew, would they feel differently about it? Many make-up companies do not list the ingre ...
  • Wave of Car Fires, Vandalism and Shooting in G ...
    No these are not images from the French riots in 2005, but it could be... it looks just the same. For about two weeks now fires have been going off in various suburbs around Gothenburg. This have escalated in the last two days. Police cars and other vehicles seems to be the primary target. Four ...
  • The E.U. Cracks Up - Finns Against Portugal Eu ...
    Political upheaval has hit Finland, and it’s merely a foreshadowing of bigger changes ahead. The core issue is whether Finland ought to be paying for bailouts for other EU states. In reaction to establishment support for the bailout, voters ousted the pro-bailout ruling party and gave an upset v ...
  • EU Prepares To Invade Libya With Ground Troops ...
    The United Nations is set to rubber stamp an EU invasion force of ground troops that would be sent into Libya under the cooked up pretense of “humanitarian aid” and empowered to fight if Gaddafi forces threatened to impede their mission to “secure sea and land corridors inside the country,” anot ...
  • Dr. Zahi Hawass, Fake Chamber Scandal
    Only days after being sentenced to a year’s jail sentence, former Egyptian Minister of Antiquities "Zahi Hawass" could be in trouble yet again, evidence has emerged that he may have staged a false project, live on T.V. to fool the people of Egypt, and the world! In 2002 a robot was sent to explo ...

Russia Today

Dad2059′s Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica

  • WikiLeaks, Allnewsweb and the TEA Party
    When one looks at the above title, the individual has to ask, WTF? What could these three things have in common? Well, according to ‘Mirage Men‘ author, Mark Pilkington, not really a whole hell of a lot, just rampant opportunism: When the first mention of UFOs in the tranche of diplomatic paper ...
  • Even Gary Bekkum is skeptical
    Gary Bekkum’s  STARpod.org’s site is usually replete with government conspiracies, psychic spies, hamsters, Bigelow’s Skinwalker Ranch, Laura Eisenhower’s Mars Colony and other wondrous esoteric oddities that it’s hard to believe that Gary could be skeptical of anything. But he is. He is very s ...
  • More Paracast: George Filer
    Yeah I know I’ve been lazy lately (or so it seems), but trust me on this one. You won’t be disappointed with this interview Gene Steinberg and co-host Chris O’Brien of the Paracast had with Eastern MUFON Director George Filer, who also has the website Filer’s Files (which caters to guess what? Y ...
  • The Paracast: Clifford Clift of MUFON
    This week’s Paracast with Gene Steinberg and Chris O’Brien is a conversation with MUFON International’s Clifford Clift. Subjects range from the nuts and bolts aspects of UFOs to the possible paranormal links with ghosts, angels, demons and Sasquatch. This was a down to earth and civil interview, ...
  • Bizarre Beachcoming: Review of the Codex Serap ...
    Dr. Beachcoming, that eccentric collector of all things of an exotic historical nature, reviews The Codex Seraphinianus,  a book written by Luigi Serafini that is purportedly about an alien world complete with language, customs, architecture, flora and fauna. Luigi Serafini, Codex Seraphinianus ...

Tippers News

  • Yes, trafficking happens right here
    A common misconception about human trafficking and modern slavery is that it does not happen here. But it does. It's a documented fact. Take the case of two girls, ages 15 and 16, who ran away from a juvenile home in Fremont in 2007.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • Human smuggling
    THERE is no doubt that rampant poverty, unemployment and a bleak future stare young Pakistanis in the face. The situation invariably provides a breeding ground Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
    This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �N ...

The Freeman

  • Americans’ Pessimism Deepens
    “Americans are more pessimistic about the nationâs economic outlook and overall direction than they have been at any time since President Obamaâs first two months in office, when the country was still officially ensnared in the Great Recession, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News pol ...
  • Budget Task Force Struggles to Get Traction
    “A congressional task force launched by President Obama last week to help cut the federal deficit is off to a rocky start, with some members complaining that the agenda is destined to provide political theater, not a sweeping rewrite of spending and tax policy.” (Washington Post) More political ...
  • Budget-Cutting Resistance
    If libertarians are to expand the sphere of freedom while shrinking the sphere of force, they first need to be understood.
  • Debt Ceiling Shattered April 15
    Much attention is directed to the approaching congressional vote on raising the debt limit, which makes the following mysterious. According to the U.S. Treasury, the $14.294 trillion limit was exceeded on April 15.  See it for yourself here. Here are the latest figures to the penny: Total Public ...
  • Imposing Values: An Essay on Liberalism and Re ...
    Liberalism comes in two varieties, classical and modern. All liberals support limitations on government power, but modern liberalism favors, while classical liberalism opposes, significant interference with private property rights. N. Scott Arnold’s book on the classical-modern liberal debate fo ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Skills for journalists: The basics
    Jennifer Peebles — a self-described “old geezer who used to work at a newspaper” — wrote a post at the SPJ Net Worked blog titled Digital media skills every young journalist needs. Like a lot of old geezers (I say that with affection!), she started with the fundamentals: Be honest, accurate, fai ...
  • A great Flash infographic
    This might be the best interactive information graphic ever. What do you think? I love the simplicity of the rollovers. The multiple information (timeline, map) delivered in the top image below is delightful. Tapuiassauro, o novo dinossauro do Brasil won a gold medal at this year’s Malofiej (se ...
  • 10 useful resources about data visualization
    These will be useful to introduce students, journalists, or yourself to the concepts of data visualization. Bonus: There’s an interesting discussion on Quora about the difference between information graphics and data visualization. (1) When the Data Struts Its Stuff (April 2, 2011): A 1,000-wor ...
  • Timelines in journalism: A closer look
    You’re not going to create one every week, but a timeline is a useful — and helpful — type of information graphic, and fairly common in journalism. When teaching students about timelines, here are some ideas to consider and discuss: Chronology or timeline? Sometimes a timeline is not a timelin ...
  • Teaching about storytelling
    As a follow-up to Tuesday’s post about getting a story (and teaching students about stories), I’m going to refer to three earlier posts here: The elements of storytelling RGMP 11: Tell a good story with images and sound Storytelling 101 with âThe Annoying Orangeâ What I learned from Ken ...

Facing South

  • Punk'd in New Orleans: Government, BP imperson ...
    For the politicians, CEOs and other leaders assembled at the Gulf Coast Leadership Summit this week, the New Orleans confab was a chance to demonstrate the government's accomplishments and commitment to recovery after last year's fateful BP disaster. Share | But they got more than they ...
  • A year after Gulf tragedy, offshore oil compan ...
    By Marian Wang, ProPublica When the Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 men at sea last April and set off the worst oil spill in U.S. history, the tragedy exposed a number of weaknesses -- not least of which were decades-old laws th ...
  • A REGULATORY DISASTER
    Following the BP oil disaster, federal agencies took steps that may have further compromised the health of cleanup workers and Gulf Coast residents. A special Facing South investigation by Sue Sturgis and Chris Kromm When BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up a year ago in the Gulf of Mexico ...
  • POISONED IN THE GULF
    A year after the BP oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, a growing number of cleanup workers and coastal residents are reporting debilitating health problems associated with exposure to toxic chemicals in crude oil and dispersants. Faced with inaction from the federal government, victims are o ...
  • VOICES: Georgia's passage of anti-immigration ...
    Georgia's Republican legislators did not mince words last week when they passed a Peach State version of Arizona's anti-immigrant racial profiling law.� � "They have done a marvelous job with it," said state Senator Renee Unterman, praising her sheriff for putting immigrants into depo ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Gender Mainstreaming in the Senegalese Armed F ...
    In this interview, Air Force Colonel Birame Diop talks about the Senegal military's effort to integrate women into its armed forces, the many facets of that challenge, and how Senegal is one African country that has been able to avoid a coup.
  • The Uncertain Future of Libya
    Removing Gaddafi is proving harder than expected. But what will be even harder for Libyans who have never known democracy is putting together a viable government after the rebellion is over.
  • The Jasmine Revolution
    Tunisians proved that an oppressed Arab society can rise up against a dictatorship and demand democracy. With any luck, the statement will be heard, maybe even emulated, around the region.
  • Ivory Coast's Election Quagmire
    In resolving Ivory Coast's disputed election runoff, recognizing the rightful president is merely the first step in edifying a governance model that evenly represents the country's diverse and divided population.
  • U.S. Dual-Track Policy in Somalia
    In a country with layers of complexity, clan warfare and a broken state, the Obama administration is taking an appropriately complex approach to stabilizing Somalia, one that may or may not bear fruit.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • A blast from the past and a reminder about the ...
    Courtesy of the Black Agenda Report: As election year 2008 began, Obama took the most pro-banker, laissez faire capitalist position on home foreclosures of the three major Democratic presidential candidates. John Edwards backed a mandatory moratorium on foreclosures and a freeze on interest rate ...
  • The profits of local instability
    A “reasonable” amount of localized political instability in major oil-exporting nations is an extremely profitable situation for relatively stable oil exporters.  Saudi Arabia, among other, oil exporting nations is seeing the value of their oil exports increase dramatically as the civil war in ...
  • A bit more on hedonic adjustments
    Hedonics, in economics, is essentially the idea that if something is better than it used to be, it is effectively cheaper, so inflation is less than it seems. In comments, BDBlue posted this: In Queens, New York, on Friday, William Dudley was bombarded with questions about food inflation, and hi ...
  • Core CPI is exactly the wrong thing to watch
    Our lords and masters (h/t Americablog): Those trends came as real income dropped 0.5 percent for the month. The Labor Department said its Consumer Price Index increased 0.5 percent after rising by the same margin in February. That was in line with economists expectations. Core CPI is vindicatio ...
  • The Budget and Obama’s Speech
    Just to note the obvious, this budget will throw the US back into a depression (well, ok, really you never left the depression, but you know what I mean), and contrary to all of Obama’s “jobs, jobs, jobs” talk, it will cost jobs.  Also, as long as we’re at it, ignore the unemployment rate, it [...]

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

  • Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
    My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
  • PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
    A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
  • FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
    I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become such a phenome ...
  • PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
    Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many mo ...
  • China and the end of the end of history
    Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world po ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Future of the PhD: live Q&A
    What are the problems with the science PhD — and does it need reinvention? Join us here on Thursday, 21 April at 4pm London time for a live Q&A on the future of the PhD with Maresi Nerad, author of Toward a Global PhD?: Changes in Doctoral Education Worldwide. Enter your e-mail address below to ...
  • A population density map to help provide conte ...
    Following on from the population analysis which I published yesterday estimating quantitatively how many people live within certain distances of each of the world's nuclear power plants, some people have asked me for more information on population distribution itself, and whether it might provid ...
  • A GIS analysis of the number of people living ...
    I've published in Nature tonight a GIS analysis I did with the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center operated by Columbia University’s Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), looking at how many people live within certain distances of each of the world's nu ...
  • White House science office reports mixed progr ...
    The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has reported on the progress of the scientific integrity initiative that began with a stirring memo issued by US President Barack Obama in 2009. It says that fully 30 agencies have responded to a December 17, 2010 memo by OSTP direct ...
  • Evacuations are now mandatory at Fukushima plant
    Today the Japanese government took steps to prevent people from re-entering the 20km exclusion zone around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The new measure, announced by chief cabinet secretary Yukio Edano, makes it illegal for members of the roughly 27,000 households affected ...

new geography

  • Tests, Lies and The Race to the Top
    Obama had his “Sputnik Moment,“ when standardized test scores around the world pointed to the mediocrity of American students in reading, math and sciences. There is now a major mantra coming from Washington to all state capitals: the “race to the top” is on, and it doesn't include a continuati ...
  • Pickles Plans a Pogrom
    Pogróm is a word with Yiddish origin, and is a Russian word meaning “to wreak havoc, to demolish violently, to destroy, or to devastate a town." Eric Pickles, British Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, is planning to demolish, destroy, and devastate half of ...
  • Here’s Comes the Bus: America’s Fastest Growin ...
    Travel by intercity bus is growing at an extraordinary pace: reflecting a rise in travel demand, escalating fuel prices, and investments in new routes. This confluence of factors has propelled scheduled bus service between cities to its highest level in years and has made the intercity bus t ...
  • Downtown China
    In Downtown: It's Rise and Fall, 1880-1950, Robert M Fogelson says that downtowns are a uniquely American phenomenon. He refers to downtown as the commercial cores with high building densities that form "canyons" that, in some smaller urban areas, might be only a block long to a mile or more ...
  • Life and Death in the Labor Market
    The Wall Street Journal recently listed the Top 10 Dying Industries, via research firm IBISWorld. Some industries didn�t just see temporary decline during the recession � some won�t recover and will slowly (or quickly) disappear. IBISWorld�s data format is a little different than ours, and it ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • More Drivers Running Out Of Gas
    Wow. Some people are in so much denial about gas prices, and not wanting to think about filling up, that they are simply driving until they run out of gas. This is a fantastic lesson in cognitive dissonance. Think about this for a minute. If increasing numbers of people are in denial about their ...
  • Amazon’s Cloud Crash Debacle
    Via: CRN: A cloud outage and disruption that rocked Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and other services continued to wreak havoc Friday morning, more than 24 hours after the Amazon cloud outage was first noticed. … Amazon Web Service EC2 experienced outages and interruptions in it ...
  • Three-Parent IVF Babies
    Via: New Scientist: A review of technologies that create three-parent embryos to avoid mitochondrial disease has found no evidence that the methods are unsafe, calling for further research. Medical charities have followed up the report with a call to the UK’s health secretary to prepare to regul ...
  • Kickstarter for ‘The Last Cause’
    You might think that I have something to do with this project, but I don’t. However, I want to see it and I kicked in some money. Hmm. On the other hand, who needs Sci-Fi when people can use the Interwebs to crowdfund their film projects?! Kickstarter: The Last Cause
  • Cryptogon Readers Send Contributions
    Eileen sent $80 and AS sent $20. Thank you.

The Economic Collapse

  • 20 Signs That A Horrific Global Food Crisis Is ...
    In case you haven't noticed, the world is on the verge of a horrific global food crisis.  At some point, this crisis will affect you and your family.  It may not be today, and it may not be tomorrow, but it is going to happen.  Crazy weather and horrifying natural disasters have ...
  • Wal-Mart Says “Serious” Inflation ...
    Thank you Ben Bernanke for all the money printing.  Thanks to a massive injection of cash into the financial system by the Federal Reserve and other central banks, the price of almost every major commodity has skyrocketed over the past six months.  Now those price increases are ...
  • 18 Reasons Why You Can Stick A Fork In The New ...
    If you make your living by building or selling new homes in the United States, you might want to consider taking up a different career for a while.  New homes sales in the United States hit yet another new all-time record low in the month of February, and there are a whole lot o ...
  • Rich vs Poor: 14 Funny Statistics And 14 Not S ...
    Today there are two very different Americas.  In one America, the stock market is soaring, huge bonuses are taken for granted, the good times are rolling and people are spending money as if they will be able to "live the dream" for the rest of their lives.  In the other America, ...
  • 27 Signs That The Nuclear Crisis In Japan Is M ...
    How much of a threat is the nuclear crisis in Japan?  That question is on the minds of millions of people around the globe tonight.  Unfortunately, the Japanese government and the mainstream media have both been doing their best to downplay this crisis.  Even though there have b ...

Desertification

  • Drip Irrigation Planning Guide (Agriculture Guide)
    Read at : http://www.agricultureguide.org/drip-irrigation-planning-guide/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AgricultureGuide+%28Agriculture+Guide%29 First of all if you are considering installing a drip irrigation system you should take some time to sit down and map out ...
  • Grow your own food in the desert and in all th ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desert gardening http://desertgardening.niche-o-pedia.com/desert-gardening-growing-food-in-the-desert-winter-vegetable-garden-in-las-vegas/ Desert Gardening â Growing Food in the Desert â Winter Vegetable Garden in Las Vegas http://youtu.be/UYv7xkc1DsY John of http://www ...
  • Growing a nice Salad In Pots and Containers (E ...
    Read at : http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2011/04/23/container-gardening-ideas/ Container Gardening Ideas: Grow a Salad I ran across some cool container gardening ideas the other day, including these âsalad bowls.â We just finished some work on the house which includes a lovely back deck just … Contin ...
  • The growing scientific consensus that global w ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110419111425.htm Democrats and Republicans Increasingly Divided Over Global Warming, Study Finds ScienceDaily (Apr. 19, 2011) â Despite the growing scientific consensus that global warming is real, Americans have become increasingly polarize ...
  • China’s increased demand for agricultural comm ...
    Read at : http://investmentwatchblog.com/china-crops-in-short-supply-as-fewer-farms-spur-food-prices/ China Crops in Short Supply as Fewer Farms Spur Food Prices Across the road from Zhao Yuanyiâs wheat field in Chinaâs Shandong province, Chonche Group is expanding a rail-car factory on what use ...

The Paper Trail

  • Center staff honored with awards
    Spring is journalism awards season and we’re delighted that the Center for Public Integrity and partner NPR have received a prestigious Dart Award for the story “Seeking Justice in Campus Rapes.” The award is bestowed by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University.
  • A new site, a new era
    Make iWatch News your daily source for investigative and accountability news from around the corner – and across the globe.
  • Accountant gets $4.5 million from IRS for whis ...
    PHILADELPHIA — An accountant who tipped off the IRS that his employer was skimping on taxes has received $4.5 million in the first IRS whistleblower award.
  • Hey Congressman! How many federal workers are ...
    When Republican Mike Pence stood in front of a crowd of conservative activists at the end of March, he left no question as to his views on a possible government shutdown.
  • E-mails allege strife within ATF over Grassley ...
    An employee of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives alleged that he was “called to the carpet” by supervisors, accused of lying and ordered to write down everything that was said in meetings that were held with Senate staffers conducting an inquiry, according to newly release ...

backofthebook.ca

  • SUN TV Snooze Network
    By Montreal Simon Well I finally got a chance to watch Sun TV Nooz. After calling my cable channel to make sure I wasn't paying for it eh? And all I can say is they should change the name of Ezra Levant's show from The Source to The Sauce. Because anyone who ...
  • It’s a stag, not an orgy
    by Jodi A. Shaw William and Kate this, Royal Wedding that. Kate Middleton had a Dirty Dancing themed stagette, while Prince William’s bachelor party is rumoured to have had a water theme: speed boats and wakeboarding and a boat-borne pub crawl. Sounds like fun. But while I doubt Will spen ...
  • Is Trost right again?
    By Alison@Creekside Con MP and anti-abortion crusader Brad Trost, who lists being a member of the cross-party Pro-Life Caucus as one of his duties as an MP on his website, addressed the Saskatchewan Pro-Life Association’s annual convention on Saturday and thanked its members for their help in ...
  • iKnow Where You Were Last Summer
    by Eric Pettifor iPhones log date and location of every call they make. This is true of phones running the iOS 4 update of June, 2010. The data sits there on the phone. It is not transmitted to Apple, so the charge cannot be made that Apple is ...
  • Dmitri Soudas in “Con the Waterfront”
    By Montreal Simon Oh.My.Goomba. I don't know how Harper's parrot chihuahua Dimitri Soudas managed to dodge the summons from the Ethics Committee. But maybe they some higher authority could issue another one, and ask him to explain this latest scandal. An investigation by Radio-Canada su ...

libcom

  • Union Leadership Stands in the Way of Working ...
    Solidarity-Wisconsin1111.jpg For the full, original article, feel free to visit the Trial by Fire. In a surprise legislative maneuver last month, Republican legislators in Madison, Wisconsin, passe ...
  • France: occupations of secondary, primary and ...
    infant school occupation.jpg Since the very end of March, there have been increasing amounts of schools occupations throughout France. Provoked by the suppression of nearly 16,000 teaching posts, the ...
  • Christchurch: A Class Quake
    christchurch-earthquake-3.png Tragically, a major earthquake hit Christchurch on 22 February. Much of the city has been destroyed, including about one-third of the Central Business District. At the t ...
  • Lawlessness and crisis in Greece while Portuga ...
    tumblr_lgah1b2Rz91qaqd5eo1_500.jpg As the Greek government struggles to enforce austerity on its protesting citizens, Europe's bankers whisper about the possibilities of never getting their money bac ...
  • Professional Carpet Cleaning - DIY Tips
    Regardless if you seek the services of a professional or whether you do it yourself the most important thing to take into account is to go slowly enough that you eradicate as much moisture as you can. Regardless if you seek the servi ...

Free Range International

  • Victory Day
    Well, here we are, a week away from Victory Day, the third annual national holiday celebrating the martial history of Afghanistan.  There is Independence Day in August, which celebrates running the Brits out of the country in the 1800’s. Then, there is Liberation Day, in February, which mark ...
  • Poppy Time
    It is Saturday, the 9th of April here in the sunny paradise of Afghanistan and both Kandahar and Kabul are in UN declared “White City” status as the locals brace for another round of anti American protests in response to the Koran burning in Florida.  I’m in Kandahar where all is quiet after   ...
  • Afghanistan Gone Wild
    The killings in Mazar-i Sharif followed by rioting in Kandahar, Jalalabad and towns across the country are more than a little troubling. Joshua Foust posted on the topic expressing concern about the viability of internationals remaining outside the wire which makes concerned too because Joshua ...
  • Hotel California Naw Zad Addition
    Apologies.  I ended my last post with an observation about the importance of how wars end.  That was most foolish because it assumed we started bombing Libya with the intention of using the military to achieve a militarily appropriate endstate.  I’m all for killing Col Gadhafi because he kill ...
  • Rant Time
    Last December C.J. Chivers wrote a very classy piece on one of my fellow milbloggers Joshua Foust from Registan.net.  C.J. noted that Joshua has softened some of his pointed criticism while growing as a writer.  I see the same thing in his Registan posts and know that I too have tried to tone do ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Doug Wallace Strikes Again
    Doug Wallace has been a thorn in Mormonism’s side for many decades.  He is credited for forcing the “Church” to allow Negroes to “Hold the Priesthood”. Now look what he is advocating!   Incredible! Americans United Against Fascist & Theocratic Government Retired Attorney Seeks World-Wide Shut ...
  • The Achilles Heal of the New World Order &#821 ...
    In the New Testament, it is recorded that Jesus Christ often blessed the little innocent children. On at least one occasion he declared that any person who would abuse or “offend” a child — it would be better for that person that a “millstone” (an exceedingly heavy and large rock) be placed arou ...
  • T – EL – EVIL – SION = TELEV ...
    It starts with the Tau – the cross.  Then it honors El – another name for the Serpent Demon God Set — which of course is the ultimate anti-Christian EVIL, all culminating in the vision of SION — aka ZION. T-El-EVIL-SION — what’s in a name?  Everything!! Discovered by Mormon Philo Farnsworth af ...
  • Brother Nathaniel Speaks Out on Glenn Beck
    Ok folks, here it is.  I am NOT a Glenn Beck fan.  In my opinion he is a narcissistic, blind and ignorant Mormon blow-hard.  However, he is learning the hard way it would appear.  Perhaps now he understands who actually has paid his exorbitant salary the last couple of years.  Perhaps now he rea ...
  • WHAT IS GOING ON??
    I have noticed that many “mainstream media” reporters are suddenly speaking a very weird form of gibberish.   Strangely, it sounds like some form of hidden language ala the fictional (?) TV series V. Or, is this just ordinary humans suffering from low blood sugar and migraines?   At the very ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

  • Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny ...
    Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plan ...
  • Air powered environmentally friendly car being ...
    Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re ...
  • Deforestation – environmental & human ef ...
    There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain te ...
  • Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here&#821 ...
    Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing t ...
  • Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
    It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM sa ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Roberta Jamieson
    Roberta Jamieson, head of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation talks about her commitment to the education and success of aboriginal youth.
  • Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter
    Peter Mansbridge sits down with Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon to discuss his hits, and those songs that were never sung.
  • Olivia Chow, NDP MP (Jan 15, 2011)
    Jack Layton and Olivia Chow: Ottawa’s political power couple -- he’s a party leader, she’s one of his backbenchers. But only one of them makes the cut for this week’s program, and its not him! Olivia Chow is our guest and there’s lots to talk about.
  • Rex Murphy (Dec 18, 2010)
    We call him the wordsmith for his own amazing using of the English language - and part of that he gets from his voracious reading appetite of the works of others. Given the season, time for a visit from the one and only Rex Murphy, and his advice on the best books to give.
  • Malalai Joya, Afghan activist (October 30, 2010)
    She is a hard core activist in Afghanistan and has paid the price for it. Her life constantly threatened, banished from her seat in the Afghan parliament, Malalai Joya never stops. She wants foreign troops, including Canada's, out of her country and warlords out of government. This week she's ...

Scotts Contracting

  • Business Proposal-Concentrated Solar Power
    CSP-Design will enable every homeowner an option for Inexpensive Photovoltaic System for their Home or Business. Lets Make Producing Solar Energy Affordable for Every Budget! Business Proposal1 In many of the calls from people who desire a solar photovoltaic system for their property I have foun ...
  • Exploratory Public Offering For CSP Design
    Initial Exploratory Public Offering For CSP Design-4/17/2011 In many of the calls from people who desire a solar photovoltaic system for their property I have found that the biggest hurdles to overcome are: Total Costs of the System (Thousands of dollars that do not produce as reasonable return ...
  • Exploratory Public Offering For CSP Design
    Initial Exploratory Public Offering For CSP Design-4/17/2011 In many of the calls from people who desire a solar photovoltaic system for their property I have found that the biggest hurdles to overcome are: Total Costs of the System (Thousands of dollars that do not produce as reasonable return ...
  • Just a Few of the Reasons I Choose to Offer We ...
    Racking, Wiring, Grounding and Inverter are built into a larger-format 235-watt panel (AC Power), thereby delivering higher performance and lower installed cost. Westinghouse Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq:WEST), a designer and manufacturer of solar power systems, today announced the release of their secon ...
  • Call Today for Missouri Renewable Energy
    Missouri Renewable Energy Bill moves to the House Floor Your Calls Needed NOW! HCS HB 613 which reinstates portions of the voter enacted Renewable Electricity Standard will be heard on the Floor of the Missouri House of Representatives this week. After many hours of hard work by the Renewable En ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • How Nonviolence Protects the State
    How Nonviolence Protects the State is the title of a 2007 book by Peter Gederloo. It can be downloaded free at http://zinelibrary.info/files/How%20Nonviolence%20Protects%20The%20State.pdf As a long time activist, I have always been troubled by the militant nonviolent perspective that dominates t ...
  • Infiltrating the Single Payer Movement
    http://www.healthcare-now.org/ My own knowledge of left gatekeepers stems from 14 years as a single payer activist (1988-2002)  in Washington State. Our local single payer movement was launched by a group of doctors belonging to Physicians for a National Health Program. Our goal was to reduce he ...
  • Leftgatekeepers Infiltrate the Progressive Mov ...
    Wesbster Tarpley, in Barrack H. Obama: the Unauthorized Biography, uses the example of the Ford Foundation to outline how left gatekeeper foundations, often backed by CIA funding, have taken over some of the Cointelpro-type counterinsurgency functions of the US government. It’s really impossible ...
  • The “Cointelpro” Role of Left Ga ...
    The two most prolific contemporary writers regarding foundation funded Cointelpro-style counterinsurgency tactics are historian and journalist Webster Tarpley (in Barack H Obama: the Unauthorized Autobiography) and Australian-born academic researcher Michael Barker. A list and link to all Bark ...
  • The Nation Magazine and the CIA
    Bob Feldman’s unraveling of the indirect CIA funding received by the Nation and Radio Nation is the most instructive in demonstrating how “pass-through” funding works (see http://www.questionsquestions.net/feldman/nation_ned_1.html). According to their tax returns, the Nation Institute receives ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • Fukushima Lies
    Well, as was obvious almost immediately, the nuclear power lobby and their supporters went into overdrive to downplay and obfuscate the seriousness of the Fukushima crisis in Japan. No, this isn’t another Chernobyl. And World War Two wasn’t the same as World War One, that doesn’t mean World War ...
  • The lessons of the King’s Cross Fire, or ...
    The King’s Cross Fire was a fire on an escalator in a subway in London in 1987. 31 people died, more than 60 were injured. It made the news of course, and I’m sure many of my older readers remember it. And if they were like me, they recall that the fire was on a [...]
  • The Mask of la Roche-Cotard
    Continuing with my “strange old things” theme, here we have the Mask of la Roche-Cotard. Unlike our previous rock, this rock has been shaped by human (well, Neanderthal) hands. It’s a piece of flint about 4 inches (10 cm) tall and wide, and through a natural hole under the “nose” a piece of bone ...
  • The Makapansgat Pebble, a Mirror Into Our Past?
    Neat looking rock, eh? It’s about 2 by 3 inches (5 by 8 cm,) around half a pound (260 grams.) It would fit nicely in a hand in other words. It’s a stream worn piece of jasperite, a reddish rock that polishes up nicely. The markings on it are completely natural, the result of bouncing [...]
  • The Libyan Army Changes the Rules of the Game
    Well, I was wrong. I’d feel stupid, but since many other people including high ranking military professionals were also wrong, I don’t feel too bad about it. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan of Mr Qaddafi, and the last time I thought war was glorious was when I was ten years old, [...]

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

  • Update: Greenpeace measures Caesium 40 miles f ...
    … and hence in areas not yet evacuated though they should obviously have been. Map of Radiation Measurements by Greenpeace team See also: Call for further evacuation around Fukushima Now, if nothing should happen, those within these areas and of course also further beyond, even in adjacent count ...
  • How to protect your garden patch or field agai ...
    Do you own a garden, a patch of land, a field where you plant, esp. for human food or animal feed? Then you should prepare against letting the radioactive fall-out from Japan into your soil, where it will remain and contaminate your plants and e.g. livestock for probably decades. Here’s the advi ...
  • Politicians of all countries, recollect yourse ...
    Dear politicians, there’s no alternative to forever turning our backs on nuclear energy and fast. Sure, the nuclear industry will protest vigorously and will see profits dwindle but they will survive without much problem – as opposed to many Japanese. It is but a question of time until another c ...
  • Survival tips: Out of bottled water? Drinking ...
    Let’s assume you went to several stores and all of them are out of bottled water – what you can do to still lower the radiotoxicity from your drinking water by a simple trick that costs nothing. Here is what you need to know and what you can do even if you can’t buy bottled [...]
  • To our good and loyal subjects: After ponderin ...
    … We have understood that to effect a settlement of the present situation We need to resort to an extraordinary measure. We should have ordered Our Government long ago to communicate to the people of Japan and to the world that Our Empire should not embark on a scheme of using nuclear energy for ...

Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
    In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted. The follo ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
    The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
    The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
  • Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
    In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the current crisis. This ar ...
  • Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
    No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • I Can’t Take Donald Trump Seriously
    Join the forum discussion on this post I am constantly amused by the views of presidential candidates on energy policy. Their views are either so disingenuous or so naive that I often find it difficult to vote for a candidate. In the 2008 election, I could have voted for Barack Obama, who decl ...
  • ‘Price Signal’ can be a Weapon for Managing Hi ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post The Steep Cost of Sudden Price Spikes One of my recent essays discussed the relationship between high oil prices and recession. Consumers who suddenly find themselves paying more for fuel are hit with the equivalent of a stealth tax, leaving less money av ...
  • Radio Interview on Rising Gas Prices
    Join the forum discussion on this post Following my recent article in the Washington Post on Five Myths About Gas Prices, I received several inquires for additional commentary on the story. Below is an interview that I did with KSL NewsRadio in Utah that allowed me to expand upon the points fro ...
  • A Double Dip Recession? Only If We Are Lucky
    Join the forum discussion on this post Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich recently warned that the U.S. is likely headed back into recession: The Economic Truth That Nobody Will Admit: We’re Heading Back Toward a Double-Dip Why aren’t Americans being told the truth about the economy? We’r ...
  • Speculator’s Political Reserve?
    Join the forum discussion on this post Strategic Petroleum Reserve or Speculator’s Political Reserve? In the previous essay, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was quoted in a letter to then-President Bush: âThe [strategic] petroleum reserves are intended to provide relief at times when working fami ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Amazon.com: Retool Your School: The Educator's ...
    Comments:Great methods for successful integration of Google tools into your classroom instruction. - Dean MantzTags: retool, amazon, Google, googleapps, education, isteby: Dean Mantz
  • The (Enormous) Economic Returns to a Good Teac ...
    Highlights and Sticky Notes:It has now become conventional wisdom that teachers are the most important ingredient in an effective school.�A good teacher gets above average achievement out of her students.A teacher at the 85th percentile can, in comparison to an average teacher, raise the present ...
  • [video] Habemus Satrianum
    Comments:Questa è la storia dell’antica e la nuova Satriano di Lucania, fazzoletto di terra in cui lo spettro delle discariche, permessi di ricerca petroliferi e “strane” recinzioni energivore, minacciano l’integrità dei luoghi. Il ricorso della Tyke Srl ( interessata al progetto di discarica) d ...
  • [video] Satriano, il gallo e l’uovo solare
    Comments:Correva l’anno 2009 quando al bivio di Calle – Tricarico (Mt) qualcuno lanciava un appello al mondo dell’agricoltura. Oggi, anno 2011 la “veggenza” prende forma a Satriano di Lucania (Pz), in cui galli tibetani annunciano l’era delle uova solari. A bordo della navicella a lievitazione m ...
  • myUdutu - sign in
    Tags: elearning, software, scorm, Tools, E-learning, myudutu, authoring, web2.0by: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

  • Bite-Sized Tips from a Green Cleaning Guru
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—John Vlahakis received a lesson in standing up for what he believes in at a very young age. read more
  • How You Can Stand Up Against GMOs
    RODALE NEWS, NEW YORK, NY—This year is the 30th anniversary of the introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), which first hit the scene way back in 1981. And Monsanto, Syngenta, and other chemical companies that develop GMOs marked the occasion with successful U.S. Department of Agr ...
  • 10 Unusual Earth-Friendly Habits to Start on E ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—You recycle your plastic, your turn off the lights when you leave the room, and you buy organic vegetables…and that's all great. If you're ready to take your ecofriendly activities to the next level, here's a batch of some more…unique ideas to mull over and try out on Ea ...
  • Truly Healthy Eggs: A Quick and Easy Guide
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Easter is right around the corner, so naturally, eggs are on the mind. read more
  • Take an Invasive Species to Dinner
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PAâYou may not realize it, but we're being invaded. Since 1999, the National Invasive Species Council (www.invasivespecies.gov) has identified more than 110 nonnative species (29 animals, 46 plants, and 39 aquatic species) that threaten our health or environment, and cost o ...

big think

  • Why Iago Would Have Scorned the SATs
    The first thing you hear from him is a complaint: He's talking, but the other guy isn't listening. The last thing he does is announce he's not going to talk any more. Between that first " 'Sblood, but you will not hear me" and the final "from this time forth, I never will speak word," Iago is th ...
  • Understanding Morality through the Brain
    What's the Latest Development? Professor of philosophy at the University of San Diego and MacArthur "genius" grant recipient, Patricia Churchland felt unsatisfied with philosophy's progress at understanding the mind, so she went to medical school to learn about the brain's circuitry. What she ...
  • How Reading Expands the Sense of Self
    What's the Latest Development? New psychological research out of the University of Buffalo demonstrates how, "When we read, we psychologically become part of the community described in the narrative—be they wizards or vampires. That mechanism satisfies the deeply human, evolutionarily crucial, ...
  • Brain Bank Seeks Donors—Donald Trump?
    What's the Latest Development? A research effort at the University of California San Diego called the brain bank is looking for people willing to tell their life stories before they die and to donate their physical brains afterwards. The brain banks wants "to help researchers study how persona ...
  • Optimism: The Path to Happiness
    What's the Latest Development? As founder of the positive psychology movement,�Martin Seligman recalls during his years as a clinical psychologist that he did help relieve his patients of mental suffering, but that the result was not necessarily happy people. Instead, says Seligman, people cam ...

Information Liberation

  • Cop Viciously Assaults Innocent Stranger For V ...
    This video is extremely disturbing. A fascist terrorist in uniform viciously assaults a complete stranger for merely asserting his right to videotaping him. Colling: Can I help you, sir? Crooks: Nope, just observing. Colling: Do you li...
  • Law-Enforcement Socialism
    Every year, more prisons are built, more money is funneled to police departments, more criminal law is written and yet domestic crime remains a major problem. Explanations abound as to why this is. The Left blames the economic system for fostering...
  • 24 Signs Of Economic Decline In America
    The United States is in the middle of a devastating long-term economic decline and it is getting really hard to deny it.* Over the past year I have included literally thousands of depressing statistics in my articles about the U.S. economy.* I have d...
  • What Makes a Great President Great?
    George W. Bush only ranks 34th in the recent surveys of the greatest Presidents of the United States. Since there are but 40-43 of these magnificents in total, Dubya is way down there. Why? What is greatness in a U.S. President, hereafte...
  • Obama Says It's Okay To Treat Manning The Way ...
    In the continuing saga of President Obama's tone deafness to the concerns of many (including the UN) around the world regarding the treatment of Bradley Manning -- who's accused of being the source of many of Wikileaks major releases -- the President...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Or I’ll Huff, And I’ll Puff…
    Unlike immigration, which as I said is a complicated issue with no simple, pat, one-line solution, the issue of smoking from a Libertarian viewpoint is pretty cut-and dried (pun discovered only after proof-reading). So this will be a much shorter post. … Continue reading →
  • Libertarianism And Immigration
    I was going to wait a while before tackling this issue, but it has become topical in so many countries, including those of most of you reading this, that it’s appropriate we look at it today. It isn’t a cut … Continue reading →
  • The Missing Fifty Million
    Fifty million peopleâthe equivalent population of Burma, South Korea, Spain or South Africaâthey’ve gone. Vanished. Or perhaps, more precisely, they’ve been disappeared. That’s the number of âclimate refugeesâ by 2010 that the United Nations Environment Programme forecast in its 2005 report, … ...
  • Gaia Rights
    For those of you wondering why I expend so many words banging on about rights, here’s a story which illustrates the point nicely. You may have read about it yourselves in the last few days; I did, but dismissed it … Continue reading →
  • Carbonomics
    I promised myself that I’d stay away from Global Warming, at least until some new wrinkle turned up that promised some sort of interesting discussion. But seeing as GE is away, surfing apparently (you’ll forgive my antipodean snickering as I … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Five feisty science books on David’s desk
    Five super science books landed on my desk during the last week or two, everything from a Haynes manual for the Space Shuttle to hacking life and from astrobiology to the discovery of Lucy by way of the fact of evolution. The Fact of Evolution – Opponents of evolution are wont to say it's "just" ...
  • Recent science news roundup
    Optical catapulting for explosive fingerprint detection – Optical catapulting-laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy has been used to successfully detect residues of common explosives in human fingerprints, according to researchers from Egypt and Spain.Recent science news roundup is a post from: S ...
  • Five more science stories
    Fukushima did not get any worse and is no Chernobyl? – Nothing had changed when they elevated Fukushima to the same level as Chernobyl, leaked radiation has gone down, although efforts are ongoing to cool the nuclear fuel and prevent any further radioactive material from escaping. The change sim ...
  • Comical rhyming history of life, free ebook
    Last year, James Dunbar researched and wrote a scientifically accurate, rhyming comic book about the origin of the universe. This year, he’s back with part 2 of the trilogy: “It’s Alive! The Universe Verse: Book 2″ Dunbar’s new tome, available digitally or in paper tells the story of life on Ear ...
  • Five more science stories
    Tevetron finds new particle – Scientists at the particle accelerator have reported a study of the invariant mass distribution of jet pairs produced in association with a W boson using data collected with the CDF detector which correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.3 fb^-1. The observed dis ...

RFF Library

  • Critical Infrastructure for Ocean Research and ...
    National Research Council (download of prepublication version with free registration) http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13081 [Recommendation] Federal ocean agencies should establish and maintain a coordinated national strategic plan for critical shared ocean infrastructure investment, ma ...
  • Adaptation to a Changing Climate in the Arab C ...
    World Bank | League of Arab States http://bit.ly/i6nrPk [From Website] We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the World Bank Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) regional Climate Change Flagship Report, “Adaptation to a Changing Climate in the Arab Countries.”  The report, currentl ...
  • Energy-Water Nexus: Amount of Energy Needed to ...
    US Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-225 [From Summary] As the demand for water increases, the energy demands associated with providing water services are similarly expected to grow. GAO was asked to describe what is known about (1) the energy needed for the urb ...
  • National Forest System (NFS) Roadless Area Ini ...
    Congressional Research Service CRS-roadless-lands_03 Roadless areas in the National Forest System (NFS) have received special attention for decades. Many want to protect their relatively pristine condition; others want to use the areas in more developed ways. Two different roadless area policies ...
  • How Dirty is Your Data? A Look at the Energy C ...
    Greenpeace International http://bit.ly/hyYgOd [Environmental Leader.com] Apple gets the worst ratings in a Greenpeace report that claims cloud computing companies are perpetuating the use of fossil fuels. The report, How Dirty is Your Data?, compares energy choices made by Apple, Google, Faceboo ...

Scientific American - News

  • Deep Freeze: Mars Orbiter Finds Massive Stores ...
    Buried under the south pole of Mars are the makings of one heck of a Halloween party. [More]
  • Gulf Seafood Officially Safe, But Questions an ...
    COCODRIE, La.--Eating at North America's southern rim, where the land fades into the water, demands a stomach for seafood particularly shrimp, crab and fish, such as sea bass. After all, Louisiana alone pulls in some six million metric tons of seafood per decade, and Terrebonne Parish, which enc ...
  • Searches for Human Remains Combine High-Tech w ...
    FBI aircraft are performing flyover imaging runs of an area on Long Island where local authorities have already discovered 10 sets of human remains . The bones and bodies appear to be the work of a serial killer--and perhaps multiple killers--who dumped the bodies in brush near the island's sou ...
  • A Bicycle Built for None: What Makes a Riderle ...
    Be kind to your bicycle, for you may need it more than it needs you. [More]
  • Coast Benefits: NASA Announces Retirement Home ...
    The launching and landing of space shuttles has always been a fairly coastal affair: The shuttles take off from Florida and almost always touch down in Florida or California. (Once, in 1982, a shuttle landed at New Mexico's White Sands Space Harbor.) NASA is continuing that coastal tradition wit ...

First Truths

  • Under Construction
    First Truths is in transition, though what it is in transition both�from and to remain something of a mystery. In the meantime, visit the Center for a Stateless Society for your market anarchism/D'Amato fix. My Center for a Stateless Society archive. My Ludwig von Mises Institute archive.
  • The Real Terrorists
    I commented on the Iraq hostage situation among other things: Terrorist attacks, if indeed they are disproportionately directed at the U.S. and its surrogates, are, while monstrous and morally detestable, the desperate convulsions of a people trapped and oppressed by the weight of empire. As Gre ...
  • For Our Own Good
    I discuss the regulatory state for C4SS: Well, if they’re our last hope, then there really isn’t any way out of state capitalism’s shrewd schemes to bleed us dry and sell us poison. Barrett never bothers to consider, though, what it is that enables corporations to “cut corners” against the inter ...
  • Human Life: Another Dispersed Cost
    The Empire couldn't care less about civilian deaths in Afghanistan, I argue in a commentary for C4SS: For the novel’s superpower Oceania, then, as for the United States, defeat of an enemy that is “unconquerable” by design is neither possible nor even desired. Since Afghanistan, in and of itself ...
  • "Meritocracy" in the Middle East
    For C4SS, I examine the substance of statist "meritocracy" in Bahrain: Free market anarchists regard the meritocratic credo of the state capitalism as an integral organ of that oppressive system not because we see all people as possessed of the same abilities, but because it is not through any a ...

Media Co-Op

  • Camp on the Fraser Continues, Supporters Welcome
    After a chilly night under the stars, dozens of people are working to make the camp at the site of the proposed South Fraser Perimeter Road permanent. "There's lots of people, not only people camping here but neighbours wandering through with their kids, and it is a happening fun scene in this b ...
  • Putting the Barricades Back in Earth Day
    Activists take over site of highway expansion More than 120 people gathered in North Delta today to reclaim a contentious section of land.� The site along the Fraser River is�where the provincial and federal governments plan to build the S ...
  • Water is Not to be Fracked With
    Click on the above photos to view the slide show with captions. More than 100 people rallied to ban fracking at Nova Scotia Legislature today. Fracking involves pumping hundreds of chemicals deep into the earth at high pressure. Chemicals such as benzene, toluene and xylene end up in the water t ...
  • Revolt and Crisis in Greece
    Organization, insurrection and control; past, present and future Antonis Vradis and Dimitris Dalakoglou are editors of the anarchist journal and blog Occupied London and members of the antagonist movement in Greece and the UK. They spoke i ...
  • Plundering & Pollution Conference: Niobium min ...
    Speech by Ellen Gabriel Niobium mining is taking place in Kanehsatake, near the recent field exploited by the St-Lawrence Colombium. Niobium is a rare ore, more and more sought, which is used in many high technology products. Its extractio ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • What the hell is Rupert Murdoch up to?
    "Der Antisemitismus ist der Sozialismus der dummen Kerle" "Antisemitism is the socialism of fools" August Bebel David Seaton's News LinksI am coming to the conclusion that something very strange is going on.� I come to that conclusion merely starting from the simple premise ...
  • America: only one revolution to a customer
    David Seaton's News LinksWhy is it that when you study the graph above and then read the quotes below, the graph seems so real and the quotes seem some sort of political science fiction, verging from the absurd and childish to the puzzled or even hopeless?�What you are looking at in Tunisia, in ...
  • Donald Trump, or the death rattle of "Voodoo E ...
    I am ugly, but I can buy the most beautiful woman for myself. Consequently, I am not ugly, for the effect of ugliness, its power to repel, is annulled by money.(...) I am a detestable, dishonorable, unscrupulous and stupid man, but money is honoured so also is its possessor. Money is the highest ...
  • Globalization and its discontents: a new paradigm
    I have an "impossibility theorem" for the global economy (...). It says that democracy, national sovereignty and global economic integration are mutually incompatible: we can combine any two of the three, but never have all three simultaneously and in full.� Dani Rodrik - Kennedy School Harv ...
  • The world crisis as it develops
    David Seaton's News LinksThe other day we went shopping at a huge hypermarket of the French, "Carrefour" chain on the outskirts of Madrid. We hadn't been there for about a year and we were struck by how the quality of the store-brand, discount merchandise had deteriorated in that time. Not that ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • The Drug Industry May Be Bad, But THIS Industr ...
    A classic video where Peter Jennings demonstrates how the government and food industry are helping to make America fat.
  • The Devastating Toll of This Popular Food on R ...
    The mass cultivation of soybeans has a hugely detrimental environmental impact worldwide. This video shows just how harmful industrial soy farming can be for the people exposed to it.
  • The Cancer Treatment So Successful - Tradition ...
    Dr. Nick Gonzalez is a physician focused on alternative cancer treatment using a three-pronged nutritional approach. Located in New York City, he’s had remarkable success treating patients with some of the most lethal forms of cancer that conventional medicine cannot effectively address.
  • Is SuperSize Documentary Really Accurate?
    Most people thought the documentary SuperSize Me was an expose of what the fast food industry was doing to waistlines around the world. But comedian and former health writer Tom Naughton didn't buy it. Can you actually lose weight on a diet of burgers and fries?
  • How Supermodel Gisele Bundchen "Infuriated Can ...
    Researchers at the Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based nonprofit, released their annual report claiming nearly half of the 500 most popular sunscreen products may actually increase the speed at which malignant cells develop and spread skin cancer because they contain vitamin A and it ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Wave of child deaths strikes indigenous commun ...
    Warao child and baby, Amacuro delta, Venezuela. © Fiona Watson/Survival Six children in one Warao indigenous community in Venezuela have reportedly died within the space of ten days in April, as a result of malnutrition, disease, and poor health care. Vomiting, diarrhea, fever, respiratory ...
  • Jumma villages burned to ashes
    Jummas, Bangladesh © Mark McEvoy/Survival Six indigenous Jumma villages have reportedly been burned to ashes and many Jumma people attacked by Bengali settlers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh. Violence erupted when Jumma landowners discovered settlers clearing their land and bu ...
  • Ross Thomas models for Survival
    Ross Thomas modeling Survival's T-Shirt by Richard Long. © Survival Hollywood actor Ross Thomas, whose new movie ‘Soul Surfer’ has just opened, models two new T-shirts for human rights organization Survival International. The two T-shirts are available from Survival’s online store. Richa ...
  • US human rights report shines spotlight on Pen ...
    Under Chief Minister Taib, the Penan's forests have been ravaged for 30 years. © Survival International A new US government human rights report has highlighted the Penan tribe’s battle to protect their rainforests in Sarawak, in Malaysian Borneo, from logging. The US State Department docum ...
  • Endangered uncontacted tribe to feature on Dis ...
    The photos reveal a thriving, healthy community with baskets full of manioc and papaya fresh from their gardens. © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival The Discovery Channel will show unique footage of an uncontacted tribe on Sunday, April 17 (9pm, ET and PT) in the Grasslands and Jungles episode ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • 3/3 binge & purge: poison, polls, paycheck
    satire: gerber recalls 60,000 jars of baby poison* poll: do you believe gmo foods should be labeled?* states try to loosen raw milk restrictions as fda tries to tighten them* uk restaurant's breast milk ice cream seized by council officials* whole foods ceo: don't call it 'whole payc ...
  • food inflation kept hidden in tinier bags
    a stealth downsizing, as shoppers pay more for less food... or: nabisco is cheating you out of precious saltines
  • 'toxic waste bubble gum' recalled for lead con ...
    from food freedom: Believe it or not, there is actually a product on the market called “Toxic Waste Short Circuits Bubble Gum.” How’s that for subliminally mind-warping your children into thinking toxic waste is fun and tastes good, too! Ironically, the Pakistani product has been recalled for ...
  • 'rally for the right to know': educating the m ...
    from natural news: On March 26th 2011, social activists and other activist organizations plan to unite at "The Rally for the Right to Know" in Washington, DC. They will gather before the eyes of law makers to do what the FDA, USDA and other government food overlords refuse to do and what Congres ...
  • your healthy alternative food may be same crap ...
    from grist: Looking to lower your impact? Here's your cheat sheet. GoodGuide offers greenness and social responsibility ratings, via web or app, for tens of thousands of products, including food, clothing, toys, and cleaning supplies. Obviously, it's massively useful to be able to look up a br ...

CrusadeWatch

  • Militant Christianity - Evangelical Christiani ...
    source: DNA India, March 27, 2011 In his explosive new book The Armies Of God: A Study In Militant Christianity, British-born, Malaysia-based academic Iain Buchanan blows the lid off a subject that most scholars and journalists tend to shy away from: the rise of US evangelism as a f ...
  • Suspected religious conversion racket busted i ...
    source:  DNA India, Apr 4, 2011 Social welfare department officials on Sunday busted an alleged religious conversion racket in Haleyangadi gram panchayat limits in Mangalore city police limits.
  • 'Religion' will be the Cause of World War III
    source: Blitz weekly, February 23, 2011 by Dirgha Raj Prasai When blind people separately feel the organs and limbs of an elephant they come to varying conjectures. Similarly, the Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and Christian religions are exchanging recriminations for their own persistenc ...
  • Our Public Schools Their Mission Field
    source:  Awaypoint, Feb 4, 2011 The Gospel has been taught freely in public schools all over the world for some time.  Now children in the U.S. have that opportunity, too! from the Child Evangelism Fellowship website A fundamentalist Christian organization, Child Evangelism Fe ...
  • Caste divide
    source: Frontline, Feb 22, 2011 S. DORAIRAJ � � Tensions run high within the Christian community in Thachur village, and the government has adopted a hands-off approach for now.  A. MURALITHARAN ...

Whole Truth Coalition

  • COTO Report British Edition: An Interview with ...
    COTO Report British Edition goes to the Isle of Wight to bring you an almost three hour long interview with Mr. David Icke by Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher.  In this interview we discuss his new book entitled Human Race Get Off Your Knees, the Lion Sleeps No More, the nature of reality and politics. link ...
  • A Warm Embrace - The Great Bell Chant
    A Warm Embrace - The Great Bell Chant from R Smittenaar on Vimeo. Watch in Full Screen, believe me it’s worth it!
  • Robert Green Speaking at Truthjuice Llangollen ...
  • No title
    We Need Your Help Urgently Please so That Robert Green Can Stand for Parliament on the Hollie Greig Establishment Abuse Case Do you live in the constituency of Aberdeen South? The wards are: Queens Cross, Gilcomston, Langstane, Hazelhead, Peterculter, Murtle, Cults, Mannofield, Ashley, Holburn, ...
  • Please join the Hollie Campaign during the UK ...
    What is the point of knowing what is going on if we then do nothing about it! ‘Paedophilia within the British establishment is rife.  Up and down the country, innocent children are being sexually abused by people holding positions of trust in ways that are beyond the comprehension of ordinary ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 20 Signs That A Horrific Global Food Crisis Is ...
    In case you haven't noticed, the world is on the verge of a horrific global food crisis.  At some point, this crisis will affect you and your family.  It may not be today, and it may not be tomorrow, but it is going to happen.  Crazy weather and horrifying natural disasters have ...
  • Wal-Mart Says “Serious” Inflation ...
    Thank you Ben Bernanke for all the money printing.  Thanks to a massive injection of cash into the financial system by the Federal Reserve and other central banks, the price of almost every major commodity has skyrocketed over the past six months.  Now those price increases are ...
  • 18 Reasons Why You Can Stick A Fork In The New ...
    If you make your living by building or selling new homes in the United States, you might want to consider taking up a different career for a while.  New homes sales in the United States hit yet another new all-time record low in the month of February, and there are a whole lot o ...
  • Rich vs Poor: 14 Funny Statistics And 14 Not S ...
    Today there are two very different Americas.  In one America, the stock market is soaring, huge bonuses are taken for granted, the good times are rolling and people are spending money as if they will be able to "live the dream" for the rest of their lives.  In the other America, ...
  • 27 Signs That The Nuclear Crisis In Japan Is M ...
    How much of a threat is the nuclear crisis in Japan?  That question is on the minds of millions of people around the globe tonight.  Unfortunately, the Japanese government and the mainstream media have both been doing their best to downplay this crisis.  Even though there have b ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Keiser: Now the Globalists are Going to Try Ta ...
    11m 30s onward, but watch the entire thing. Now then, United States... consider this in the context of the scene from the first (but fourth) Star Wars film, where Luke Skywalker encounters R2D2 for the first time and triggers the recorded message from Princess Leia. This episode of the Kei ...
  • Sunday Paper Review: 24th April 2011
    A belated best of wishes for St. George's Day to all of our readers. At these times of difficulty when Olde England is at threat from enemies, foreign and domestic (treacherous EU-loving enemies of the people), we thought we'd start by invoking Chesterton: Smile at us, pay us; pass us; but ...
  • Idiot's A-Z Guide of Politics and Current Affa ...
    As the piggies are on holiday from their Westminster trough, we thought we'd engage in a bit of educating and have - therefore - produced this Idiot's A-Z Guide of Politics and Current Affairs (2011 Edition). A is for... Austerity. This is the system by which we, the people pay more taxes and ...
  • NHS Dentistry.... this'll make you all jealous!
    Sorry for the lack of blogging today but... I went to a dentist to have the tooth that has caused me excrutiating pain for two years or more removed. Finally. And it was a NHS dentist (hence why I waited so long). But here's the best bit for you all to read and weap... ...she was whi ...
  • Gordon Brown: Proof that the world is governed ...
    Really, you couldn't make this up... Even though David Cameron has vowed to block Gordon Brown's passage to becoming Lord High Emperor of the criminal cartel which is the IMF... ...the former unelected Prime Minister has still managed to wangle his way into a position of influence in world ...

Facing South

  • Punk'd in New Orleans: Government, BP imperson ...
    For the politicians, CEOs and other leaders assembled at the Gulf Coast Leadership Summit this week, the New Orleans confab was a chance to demonstrate the government's accomplishments and commitment to recovery after last year's fateful BP disaster. Share | But they got more than they ...
  • A year after Gulf tragedy, offshore oil compan ...
    By Marian Wang, ProPublica When the Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 men at sea last April and set off the worst oil spill in U.S. history, the tragedy exposed a number of weaknesses -- not least of which were decades-old laws th ...
  • A REGULATORY DISASTER
    Following the BP oil disaster, federal agencies took steps that may have further compromised the health of cleanup workers and Gulf Coast residents. A special Facing South investigation by Sue Sturgis and Chris Kromm When BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up a year ago in the Gulf of Mexico ...
  • POISONED IN THE GULF
    A year after the BP oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, a growing number of cleanup workers and coastal residents are reporting debilitating health problems associated with exposure to toxic chemicals in crude oil and dispersants. Faced with inaction from the federal government, victims are o ...
  • VOICES: Georgia's passage of anti-immigration ...
    Georgia's Republican legislators did not mince words last week when they passed a Peach State version of Arizona's anti-immigrant racial profiling law.� � "They have done a marvelous job with it," said state Senator Renee Unterman, praising her sheriff for putting immigrants into depo ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Indonesia on High Alert After Large Bomb Found Near Church Indonesian security police are on high alert Friday after police say that terrorism suspects arrested Thursday, now numbering 19, led them to either to a large bomb or series of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Pentagon to Seek Death Penalty for Guantanamo Detainee Nashiri The Defense Department announced new charges on Wednesday against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Guantanamo detainee accused of involvement in the bombing of the USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Khadr’s Lawyers Challenge Pentagon Witness in Plea for Clemency Defense lawyers for Omar Khadr, who in October pleaded guilty to five war crimes at a military commission at Guantanamo and received an 8-year sentence, are challenging the qualifications of a … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Supreme Court Declines to Hear Appeal from Chinese Uighurs The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from five Chinese Uighurs who have been detained at Guantanamo for nearly nine years. The detainees, who are not considered a … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Attack on Afghan Defense Ministry in Kabul Kills Two A spokesman for the Afghan Defense Ministry said Monday that a would-be suicide bomber wearing an Afghan Army uniform got past several layers of security and opened fire inside the ministry … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • IE9 Day 1 - 2.3 Million Downloads, Firefox 4 - ...
    You all must aware of the fact that both IE9 and Firefox 4 was released within a span of two weeks and both of them are considered highly improved versions their predecessors. Now here are some interesting download statistics of both the browsers.� source: firefox wallpapers Firefox 4 ...
  • Mozilla F1 Firefox 4 Extension Just Got Sexier
    Mozilla F1 extension is a product of Mozilla Labs which is behind such incredible concepts like Seabird Mobile Phone.�F1 is a simple Firefox browser extension that allows you to share links fast and easy. Share links from within the browser, from any webpage, using the same services you already ...
  • Everyone's Favorite Hotot Twitter Client Now A ...
    Hotot is undoubtedly one among the very best Twitter desktop client for Linux and that was exactly why we included Hotot in our list of 18 must have applications for Ubuntu. Now, if you don't want a separate desktop client for a primary web application like Twitter, Hotot is now available in Chr ...
  • How About Firefox 4's Panorama Like Workspace ...
    Unity is the new improved Ubuntu interface which is all set to debut in another month or so when Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" is officially released. A lot of ideas keeps coming in from users on how to improve Unity interface even further. Tweak Center and Launchpad + Ubuntu Sowftare Center inte ...
  • 31 Useful Ubuntu 11.04 Unity Keyboard/Mouse Sh ...
    Ubuntu 11.04 'Natty Narwhal' will be released in another 8 days or so. We have followed the development of Ubuntu 11.04 very closely. In fact, we have reviewed all the previous developmental releases of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal so far including�Alpha 1, Alpha 2, Alpha 3 and Beta 1�releases. In ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • WHY WE NEED A NEW MILITARY DESIGNED TO DEFEND ...
    German Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere has said that he wants to establish a dialogue with the people about the future of the country’s military. http://nachrichten.rp-online.de/politik/minister-sucht-neues-konzept-1.602659 The initiative comes as a debate is raging about what shape the Germ ...
  • AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS PROFESSOR WARNS FINANCIAL S ...
    Vienna University Economics Professor Franz Hörmann, talks in this interview about why the eurozone is set to collapse soon under the weight of debt (hyperinflation), and about why we need a new money system that gives value not to material things but to creativity and intelligence. He points ou ...
  • EU PREPARES FOR GROUND INVASION OF LIBYA
    Alex Jones On EU Ground Invasion Of Libya Infowars.com April 19, 2011 Alex Jones addresses the cynical, pre-planned announcement by the EU to officially launch ground forces in Libya, a policy set in place since late February / early March when U.S. and British originally deployed special forces ...
  • NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT PLANS BIG VACCINATION P ...
    By Katherine Smith, New Zealand. “On March 24, 2011, the Report of the Health Select Committee’s Inquiry into “How to improve [increase] immunisation [vaccination] completion  rates” in New Zealand which was published on the parliamentary website. The government has six weeks to respond to th ...
  • Austria’s new People’s Party coali ...
    They were ill prepared, ill equipped and composed of the very young, the very old, and among them were very many women. They were drafted in to fight on in a hopeless situation and they fought with fanatical determination until doom struck. This description applies not only to Adolf Hitler’s Vol ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • George Carlin — Earth Day
    Happy Earth Day!!!
  • What do HAARP, Chemtrails, and Global Warming ...
    By Barbara Peterson In a nutshell, we can see that HAARP is intended to do the following: * Destroy, deflect, or confuse missiles or aircraft * Modify the weather * Change the molecular composition of an atmospheric region, by increasing or decreasing ozone, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, carbon mono ...
  • Michigan: Police Search Cell Phones During Tra ...
    The Michigan State Police have a high-tech mobile forensics device that can be used to extract information from cell phones belonging to motorists stopped for minor traffic violations. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan last Wednesday demanded that state officials stop stonewa ...
  • Fluoridation makes us stupid and unhealthy
    By Paul Fassa A recent Chinese study concluded that low dose sodium fluoride in drinking water diminishes IQ, especially among children. This is the twenty-fourth such international study with the same conclusion. Sodium fluoride has also been linked to reduced fertility and lower sperm counts. ...
  • Protect yourself from increasing radiation lev ...
    by: T.M. Hartle Growing concerns about radiation from Fukushima has led many Americans to take precautionary actions to protect themselves against rising radiation levels. Radiation has now been detected in the drinking water of over a dozen U.S. cities. As the radiation levels continue to rise ...

Veterans Today

  • Bachmann says Obama’s birth no longer is ...
    Because of people like Michele Bachmann getting attention for accusing President Obama of not being a natural born citizen, there were a lot of people paying the price for what this “congresswoman” told them. People like Maj. Gen. Karl Horst believed it and it cost him his career and freedom. Mi ...
  • ‘NYT’ readers bridle at Netanyahu’s congressio ...
    A large majority of Americans are opposed to Israelâs policies.  It makes you wonder why this opposition does not seem to have an impact on Congressional elections. By Philip Weiss / Mondoweiss A friend writes: When you look at the lopsided recommendations on the readers’ comments about this Ne ...
  • Many U.S. officials see the events in Bahrain ...
    Interview by Kourosh Ziabari / STAFF WRITER Robert Naiman is Policy Director at Just Foreign Policy. Mr. Naiman edits the Just Foreign Policy daily news summary and writes on U.S. foreign policy at Huffington Post. Naiman has worked as a policy analyst and researcher at the Center for Econ ...
  • ALLEN L ROLAND: The Resurrection Myth / Jesus ...
    This arresting picture of Jesus as a revolutionary, imitating the style of the famous poster of 1960s fighter Che Guevara, was produced as an advertising poster encouraging people to go to church during Easter 1999 Jesus was divinely human ~ a determined revolutionary and an evolutionary forerun ...
  • Battle of nerves
    Pak-US relations that apparently ran smoothly from September 2001 till 2005 developed hiccups in 2006 and ever since the relations have been uneasy. Award of civil nuclear deal together with inking of several defence contracts with India and its efforts to make India a key player in Afghanistan ...

electric politics

  • Industrial Beginnings
    In the absence of a strong industrial base, says Dr. Jefferson Cowie, it's still possible to build a healthy labor movement. I disagree. But it's complicated. So this is a somewhat frustrating exchange for me because, first, I can see that Jeff's heart is in the right place and, second, a lot o ...
  • An Anthropologist At Large
    This one meanders. We start with Japan's nuclear power crisis, commiserate over America's political failures, and end up talking about the risks inherent in maintaining large inventories of nuclear weapons. An anthropologist specialized in nuclear culture — but with very widely-ranging interest ...
  • Imperfect (Nuclear) Implementation
    Humans cannot engineer a perfect technology for nuclear power, one that presents zero risk. Nor can humans engineer a political process that enforces constant, rigorous, indefinitely long-term oversight on imperfect nuclear power solutions. The choice, therefore, is stark: use nuclear power and ...
  • Tell Me About the Future
    Nuclear power isn't safe. Oil and gas will run out — sooner, rather than later. Coal is, well, no solution either. Carbon, let's face it, is killing the planet. Realistically, we don't have much choice other than to move to renewable energy, but that move must be facilitated by government. If t ...
  • What is Religion Good For?
    In international comparisons, poverty is correlated with religiosity while wealth is correlated with secularism. Except in America — where as is true for so many other critical social metrics we are an extreme outlier. But just how out of sync have churches become? To find out I turned to the R ...

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

  • Doug Wallace Strikes Again
    Doug Wallace has been a thorn in Mormonism’s side for many decades.  He is credited for forcing the “Church” to allow Negroes to “Hold the Priesthood”. Now look what he is advocating!   Incredible! Americans United Against Fascist & Theocratic Government Retired Attorney Seeks World-Wide Shut ...
  • The Achilles Heal of the New World Order &#821 ...
    In the New Testament, it is recorded that Jesus Christ often blessed the little innocent children. On at least one occasion he declared that any person who would abuse or “offend” a child — it would be better for that person that a “millstone” (an exceedingly heavy and large rock) be placed arou ...
  • T – EL – EVIL – SION = TELEV ...
    It starts with the Tau – the cross.  Then it honors El – another name for the Serpent Demon God Set — which of course is the ultimate anti-Christian EVIL, all culminating in the vision of SION — aka ZION. T-El-EVIL-SION — what’s in a name?  Everything!! Discovered by Mormon Philo Farnsworth af ...
  • Brother Nathaniel Speaks Out on Glenn Beck
    Ok folks, here it is.  I am NOT a Glenn Beck fan.  In my opinion he is a narcissistic, blind and ignorant Mormon blow-hard.  However, he is learning the hard way it would appear.  Perhaps now he understands who actually has paid his exorbitant salary the last couple of years.  Perhaps now he rea ...
  • WHAT IS GOING ON??
    I have noticed that many “mainstream media” reporters are suddenly speaking a very weird form of gibberish.   Strangely, it sounds like some form of hidden language ala the fictional (?) TV series V. Or, is this just ordinary humans suffering from low blood sugar and migraines?   At the very ...

k2p blog

  • Jail time coming for Anil Ambani
    It would seem to be just a matter of time before Anil Ambani is taken in for questioning about the 2G scam but whether he spends any jail time remains to be seen.
  • The Art of Motivation
    In human behaviour, motivation can be considered to be a force. It is brought to bear when performing actions. Where actions have no purpose motivation is undefined.
  • A lack of courage in environmentalism today
    As environmentalism has moved away from its simple goals of cleaning up the world we live in it has adopted intangible goals which are addressed by the politics of fear and represents a movement lacking courage.
  • Ryanair fails the ethics test
    Ryanair guilty of discrimination and uncivilised behaviour but is appealing the court’s decision, blaming what happened on Luton airport.
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Consumerist

  • Vote For Consumerist In The Webby Awards!
    The nominees have been announced for the 15th Annual Webby Awards and we're happy to say that Consumerist was nominated in the Blog-Business category! There are a ton of other categories to vote on but this link will take you right to our category page, Blog - Business. Thanks again to all of y ...
  • Be Aware Of The Pitfalls Of Self-Employment
    Just as cubicle drones envy their freelancer friends who make their own hours and seemingly take vacations at will, self-employed folks sometimes long for the regular paycheck and built-in benefits of a day job. Personal Dividends examines the dark side of self-employment and notes the travail ...
  • Quick, Easy DIY Home Maintenance Tips
    By expending a little effort to keep your stuff in good condition, you can save yourself the pain of costly repairs or replacements. PartSelect offers several easy ways to keep things well-maintained. Here are our favorites: *Make sure your oven is sealed properly. Check the rubber gasket ...
  • Win $5,000 Scholarship For Wearing Duct Tape T ...
    For those of us not lucky enough to be born poor or smart, there are tons of other scholarships out there that reward uniqueness, skills and "just being yourself." For instance, there's the $5,000 you and your date could win for wearing an outfit made of Duct Tape to prom. Speaking of things ...
  • SnackWell's Ups Snack Pack Calorie Count From ...
    SnackWell's, the nonfat low-cal line of snack food introduced in 1992 but hasn't advertised in the past five years, is increasing the size of some of its new snack-packs higher than the previously holy 100 calorie level. Some new varieties, like the "fudge drizzled caramel popcorn" are 130 calo ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Development Agencies Fail to Take On Corruptio ...
    Canadian Press: Darling of Development World, Stung by Corruption Problems, Says Others in Worse Shape The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria – a $21.7 billion health fund backed by prominent celebrities – is responding to allegations that the fund has lost up to $34 millio ...
  • Feds Subpoena Lawyer in CIA Leak Case: Whistle ...
    St. Louis Beacon: Feds Take Unusual Step of Subpoenaing Sterling's Lawyer The lawyer representing Jeffrey Sterling – the former CIA officer charged with leaking national security secrets to the press – was subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury in order to discuss Sterling’s case. Fed ...
  • Teresa Chambers Case Highlights Limitations of ...
    Last week, the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) ordered the National Park Service to reinstate whistleblower Teresa Chambers as Chief of the U.S. Park Police, as well as to reimburse her for back pay and legal costs. Her case garnered national attention when she was removed by the Bush ...
  • Orange County Register: Which Mystery Senator ...
    By Wikimedia user Markus Schweiss Orange County Register: Which Mystery Senator Killed Whistleblower Bill? This article details how the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) – a bill that would have strengthened protections for federal employees – was killed by one senator’s d ...
  • Justice Department Leakers of Classified Info. ...
    Three months ago, journalist Michael Isikoff noted the disturbing "Double Standard" in White House Leak Inquiries.  But now it's not just the Executive Branch.  Josh Gerstein of Politico just published an article on how a judge ruled that the Justice Department can keep secret names of its own ...

UK Progressive

  • LGBT Issues for Breakfast
    On Wednesday, April 20, some readers of the LA Times may have choked on their oatmeal after perusing the pages of the nation’s 4th largest newspaper. Front page headlines trumpeted: “Inmate sues state for sex change,” “Gay marriage foes decry judge’s use of video clip” and “Porn firms faulted fo ...
  • Billionaire and Republicans on “Warpath” to Pa ...
    America’s well-to-do are waging war on America’s âshrinking middle class,â Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Independent, says. âThe nation’s billionaires are on the war path. They want more, more, more,â and âtheir greed has no end and they are apparently unconcerned for the future of this co ...
  • Beware the “Middle Ground” of the Great Budget ...
    How debates are framed is critical because the “center” or “middle ground” is supposedly halfway between the two extremes. We continue to hear that the Great Budget Debate has two sides: The President and the Democrats want to cut the budget deficit mainly by increasing taxes on the rich and red ...
  • America’s Gay Confederate and Union Soldiers
    Queer Civil War buffs have been arguing for some time that the deafening silence around lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Confederate and Union soldiers indicates proof of their very presence. With this month commemorating the 150th anniversary of the start of the American C ...
  • Elizabeth Warren for Senator
    by Brent Budowsky I support the movement to draft Elizabeth Warren to run for the U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts. If she runs, the race would be one of the most closely watched and potentially transformative campaigns of 2012. A Warren candidacy for the Senate seat currently held by Scott Bro ...

NewsAlert

  • Stimulus by Fed Is Disappointing, Economists Say
    The New York Times reports:The Federal Reserve’s experimental effort to spur a recovery by purchasing vast quantities of federal debt has pumped up the stock market, reduced the cost of American exports and allowed companies to borrow money at lower interest rates. But most Americans are not fe ...
  • 1,000 Chicago cops may face discipline for vie ...
    The Chicago Sun-Times reports:More than 1,000 Chicago police officers could face discipline for viewing the arrest reports of two fellow cops accused of sexually assaulting a North Side woman. Police department officials said Saturday they are investigating why so many officers accessed the arr ...
  • VIDEO: Obama's green-promoting Easter message
    Illinois Review Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
  • Fast Train to Nowhere: Railroad Subsidies are ...
    The New York Times reports:For the country as a whole, the Pacific Railway Act of 1864 and subsequent legislation subsidizing the transcontinental railroads — the lines that crossed the continent from the 98th meridian to the Pacific Coast — were the worst laws money could buy. By encouraging du ...
  • Class of 2011 enjoying boost in college grad h ...
    The Chicago Sun-Times has some good news.

JoNova

  • Billions of dollars sneaks out the door throug ...
    There’s billions of dollars of money sneaking out the door of Western Nations and being used to feed the monster bureaucracy, the UNFCCC and it’s cohort. In The Carbon Tax that Ate Australia Tony Cox and David Stockwell point out the Australian contributions  fly so under the radar (despite bei ...
  • Heartland International Climate Change Confere ...
    Heartland is offering people the chance to see and possibly meet some of the heroes of the skeptic world in Washington in June 30 – July 1, 2011, Washington D.C. (I hear this may possibly be the last of the Heartland Climate conferences. I hope not!) Unfortunately I won’t be able to get there, b ...
  • Heartland International Climate Change Confere ...
    Heartland is offering people the chance to see and possibly meet some of the heroes of the skeptic world in Washington in June 30 – July 1, 2011, Washington D.C. (I hear this may possibly be the last of the Heartland Climate conferences. I hope not!) Unfortunately I won’t be able to get there, b ...
  • Cheap Influence in National Politics: How Pana ...
    Tim Blair broke the story of Tim Flannery claiming to be working for Panasonic. (But wait, I hear you say, how could that be,  we thought he was working for the Australian people?!) If you are a foreign multinational and you want to influence national Australian policies, you don’t need to spen ...
  • Is it possible our new chief scientist has dou ...
    The last chief scientist of Australia, Penny Sackett, was disappointed not to be invited to the cabaret at Copenhagen. She quit after she she felt “ignored” . Possibly she belated realized that the government may have appointed her to just so she would not disagree inconveniently with any of the ...

ReNew America

  • Rejoice! Christ is not dead
    (Marie Jon, RA analyst) - "God raised Him from the dead, freeing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on Him" -- Acts 2:24. What started out as another beautiful weekend in May, exactly one week before Mother's Day, would suddenly turn into a tragic l ...
  • Americans don't want debt hike -- by 2-to-1 ratio
    (WorldNetDaily) - A CBS News poll released this week, even though heavily weighted to favor Democrat respondents, shows Americans oppose a raise in the federal debt limit by an over 2-to-1 margin, with 63 percent opposed to only 27 percent in favor...
  • Apocalypse later: what happens the day after w ...
    (Washington Examiner) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner likely scared millions of senior Americans recently when he claimed the government would have to stop sending Social Security checks if Congress fails to raise the national debt limit...
  • Donald Trump's eminent-domain empire
    (Michelle Malkin) - Don't be fooled by The Donald. Take it from one who knows: I'm a South Jersey gal who was raised on the outskirts of Atlantic City in the looming shadow of Trump's towers. All through my childhood, casino developers and government bureaucrats joined hands, raised taxes and ma ...
  • Reagan Democrats: 'tea baggers' or MSNBC viewers?
    (Ann Coulter) - Among the most preposterous claims being made on MSNBC about the fight over public sector unions in Wisconsin is that Gov. Scott Walker and the Republicans are losing "Reagan Democrats" by taking on government employees...

Truth Offering

  • Civilization: The Biggest Bubble
    One thing I'm certain of is that the more I know, the more I realize I don't know that much. That's the irony of knowledge. It's like, as you open one door of knowledge, there are ten more to explore. And to be honest, I love that about life; I love learning more and more about our ever-changing ...
  • The Problem of Civilization: Peak Oil, Scarcit ...
    Have you guys checked out the amazing documentary, "Blind Spot" yet? If not, here it is in full: Have you seen "Collapse" with Michael C. Ruppert? No? Here's that documentary as well: "Blind Spot" and "Collapse" explain and detail the undeniable dilemma we face as a civilization, but fail to r ...
  • US Military-Industrial Self-Destruction and it ...
    CLICK TO ENLARGEOnly powerful, prosperous nations have ever become dominant military powers. Of course, this is because you must have the means to create a strong military and complementary technology. Without those means, a nation would be incapable of becoming a dominant militaristic force. S ...
  • Poll: If a disaster happened here in the US, w ...
    In Japan, there have been no reports of looting or rioting. So this week, we asked you, "If this earthquake/tsunami disaster happened here in the US, would we be this civilized?" Here's what you thought: I happen to agree; if disaster struck here, the lack of a moral fabric underlining our soci ...
  • A Nation of Cowardly, Morally-Bankrupt Sheep
    Sheep are led to slaughter. They are controlled from birth to death. They are oppressed. And once they are controlled, they will never again be free. WE are a nation of SHEEP! Note: this isn't for the faint of heart. I'm frustrated! Why!? Because I care. I care deeply; about this country; about ...

2012 Blog

  • Nyiragongo / Comet Elenin
    This is a photo from National Geographic, of a volcano you perhaps have not heard of: Nyiragongo. It is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is 2 miles high, and is one of the most active volcanoes in the world. This is unfortunate for the 1 million people who live at the base of [...] Rel ...
  • 100 Days of Disaster – VIDEO UPDATE
    I’ve got no idea if this will be on YouTube for a day, a week, or forever, but here’s the documentary for non-Aussies to see: 100 Days of Disaster My understanding is that it had 335,000 viewers which is average for 10PM on a Monday. I’m particularly happy with the overall 2012 angle that was [. ...
  • Baigong Pipes / Antikythera Device / Arctic Forest
    This is great fodder for Ancient Astronaut theorists. Over in China is a pyramid that has iron pipes within it, and heaps of pipes laying about outside. Like many such mysteries, the pipes could actually be naturally occurring – and Wikipedia cites similar, natural examples. But combined with a ...
  • 100 Days of Disaster
    I’m one of the interviewees for an Australian documentary, 100 Days of Disaster, screening tomorrow (Monday) on Channel 10 at 10pm. Patrick Geryl was also interviewed, plus I believe a few orthodox scientists, some religion experts and I think an astrologer. All being asked if we should expect t ...
  • New Alien Art Unearthed
    The art – close to the Drysdale River, where tourists visit by helicopter for picnics – includes depictions of Wandjinas, the supreme spirit beings with large mouthless faces and black eyes. If you watched the excellent Ancient Aliens TV series, you may have caught the segment that showed ancien ...

Facing South

  • Punk'd in New Orleans: Government, BP imperson ...
    For the politicians, CEOs and other leaders assembled at the Gulf Coast Leadership Summit this week, the New Orleans confab was a chance to demonstrate the government's accomplishments and commitment to recovery after last year's fateful BP disaster. Share | But they got more than they ...
  • A year after Gulf tragedy, offshore oil compan ...
    By Marian Wang, ProPublica When the Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 men at sea last April and set off the worst oil spill in U.S. history, the tragedy exposed a number of weaknesses -- not least of which were decades-old laws th ...
  • A REGULATORY DISASTER
    Following the BP oil disaster, federal agencies took steps that may have further compromised the health of cleanup workers and Gulf Coast residents. A special Facing South investigation by Sue Sturgis and Chris Kromm When BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up a year ago in the Gulf of Mexico ...
  • POISONED IN THE GULF
    A year after the BP oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, a growing number of cleanup workers and coastal residents are reporting debilitating health problems associated with exposure to toxic chemicals in crude oil and dispersants. Faced with inaction from the federal government, victims are o ...
  • VOICES: Georgia's passage of anti-immigration ...
    Georgia's Republican legislators did not mince words last week when they passed a Peach State version of Arizona's anti-immigrant racial profiling law.� � "They have done a marvelous job with it," said state Senator Renee Unterman, praising her sheriff for putting immigrants into depo ...

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Oriental Review

  • It is Time for Obama to Demonstrate True Coura ...
    John F. Kennedy said: “There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.” For Mr. Obama, it is time for action! When Mr Obama was elected to the US Presidency, he vowed to tackle and resolve the Israeli-Palestinia ...
  • Can BRICS Soften Dollar Crisis?
    On April 10, in an interview with a CNN host and political observer Fareed Zakaria, the former secretary of state James Baker, when he was speaking about the current global changes, said the following: “The biggest challenge facing the U.S. isn’t turmoil in the Arab world. It’s our debt bomb”. H ...
  • Muammar Gaddafi And Sober Media
    “The first casualty of war is the truth” said American Senator Hiram Johnson. “In time of war, when truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies” – Winston Churchill. If nothing else the world’s media have proved those two aphorisms in spades as the coverage of the Libya “rev ...
  • Al-Qaeda Front May Emerge on Europe’s So ...
    Hopes by the Western anti-Libya military coalition that Gadhafi’s regime would fall quickly have been replaced by fears of a prolonged stalemate. The direst predictions are beginning to come true, particularly those by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄan: that the Libyan crisis may go th ...
  • Geopolitical Implications of the World Economi ...
    Introduction The world economic depression is a dire threat to the national security of the United States. To date, little or nothing has been done to address the causes of the depression and rebuild the economy. With the lack of leadership and vision in the western world, the depression will co ...

BlogHer

  • Was Hiring Girl Scout Marketing Chief Laurel R ...
    This week the WNBA appointed veteran marketing executive, Laurel J. Richie, as the third president of the league. She succeeds Donna Orender who announced her resignation in December. Val Ackerman was the WNBA's first president, hired in 1996 -- a year before the league began play.Most people w ...
  • BlogHer Network Member News, April 22: Lindsay ...
    Lindsay Maddox from Silly Mom Thoughts will be appearing on the Lifetime Network show Balancing Act on May 4. Image courtesy Lindsay Maddox. Stacey Cotrufo of All Stace, All the Time was selected as a top 5 finalist in the Harlequin Desire Editor's Pitch Challenge and was one of the only A ...
  • BlogHer Conference Update -- April 22, 2011
    Happy Friday, friends -- let's jump right in! BlogHer Food '11 is right around the corner and we are excited to say we are nearly sold out! If you have not registered for the third annual Food event, now is the time to do so -- register here and join us in Atlanta! If you need another reason to ...
  • Good Friday: Reflection and Sobriety
    For some reason as an adult, Easter has always been fraught with fear for me. Next to Christmas, it's the only other holiday where shops are closed and everyone is on holidays. I have always felt the need to 'get away' over Easter and fill up the time holidaying somewhere else. Looking back ove ...
  • Parenthood, Actually: Share Your Story
    We'd like to do something to celebrate the launch of the Family Section here at BlogHer. In fact, we'd like to do something to celebrate our family readers! Since Mother's Day is right around the corner, we thought we'd celebrate you and the moms in your life! Mother's Day is on Sunday, May 8 ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Monsanto’s New GM Soy to Grow “Fis ...
    Monsanto has a strange way of trying to regain a flagging popularity. But, they have the FDA on their side as they are just one approval away from flooding the market with their new GM ...
  • USDA to Let Monsanto Perform Its Own GMO Studies
    A probing environmental impact evaluation of Roundup Ready sugar beets would most likely be harsh, right? Cross-pollination and RoundUp resistant superweeds are just a couple of the Monsanto-wreaked problems. The USDA has dismisses the legal ...
  • Autism and Vaccines Researcher for CDC, Indict ...
    Remember when the vaccine mercury/autism link was supposedly debunked? Poul Thorsen, a Danish scientist who coordinated the CDC-funded “debunking” studies, was indicted on April 13th for 13 counts of fraud and 9 counts of money-laundering. ...
  • Earlier Menopause Increasing
    Women are entering menopause earlier and earlier. Sadly, many are losing the functioning of their ovaries before they reach their forties. Although hopeful, the news of advances in assisted conception is hardly joyful and reassuring, ...
  • MI Police Can Instantly Search & Download Cell ...
    The ACLU is seeking information on why Michigan cops are able to use a device that can download all the information from citizens’ smart phones; even deleted data. When the ACLU filed a request for ...

Live News Wire

  • Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...
    Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
  • Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...
    The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
  • Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...
    Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
  • “Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...
    At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
  • Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” Proportions
    The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, April 22, 2011
    Lucky Friday miner, Brad Sala, of Mullan, Idaho holds his 8 month-old-son Cael Sala during a news conference at Mullan City Hall on Saturday, April 16, 2011, in Mullan, Idaho. Rescue teams Saturday cleared debris from a collapsed tunnel at a northern Idaho silver mine to find a miner missing mo ...
  • FBI officials tell Upper Big Branch miners&#82 ...
    We broke the story earlier today on the Gazette’s website about an FBI letter notifying the families of the miners killed at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine that they may be victims of a federal crime. I’ve now posted a copy of the letter here (with the name redacted to protect my source) ...
  • Sad news: Hazel Dickens has died
    The Washington Post is reporting the sad news — mentioned to me by several readers earlier today — that legendary singer Hazel Dickens has died: Ms. Dickens grew up in dire poverty in West Virginiaâs coal country and developed a raw, keening style of singing that was filled with the pain of her ...
  • Judge upholds fine in near-disaster at Quecreek
    An administrative law judge at the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission has upheld a $55,000 fine for the coal company involved in the near-disaster in July 2002 at the Quecreek Mine near Somerset, Pa. I’ve posted a copy of Chief Administrative Law Judge Robert Lesnick’s ruling here ...
  • MSHA announces latest ‘impact inspection ...
    This just in from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration: ARLINGTON, Va. – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that federal inspectors issued 134 citations, orders and safeguards during special impact inspections conducted at eight coal mi ...

Daniel Miessler

  • A Pink Flower in Palo Alto
    Taken at Pinkberry – Stanford Shopping Center Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsFlower at COIT TowerA Texas MealVegetarian Mexican Food in SFDon’t Be a Cryptic AssBurp 1.4 Will Support MacrosI must not copy what I see on the Simpsons | BanksyXKCD Radiation Dose Chart
  • Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery Now on iPhone
    Surely you’ve heard of Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery EP by now. We’ve talked about this exquisite graphical adventure for many moons. But as of right now, thankfully, the point and touch adventure experience, rich in wondrous sights and sounds, is available for a wider audience. Already release ...
  • 50% Of Apple’s Revenue Now Comes From The iPho ...
    Over the last 3 months (December 26th, 2010 – March 26th, 2011), Apple pulled in a grand total of 24.6 billion dollars. Now, what percentage of that do you think is from the iPhone? 10%? 25%? Get this: 50%. Yep. According to Apple’s latest earning report, an entire half of Apple’s quarterly reve ...
  • Obama in Terrorist Garb [BREAKING]
    via nytimes.com Proof that the birthers are on to something. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsAmerica by the Numbers | NYTThe New York Times Summarizes the Recent Wikileaks ContentThe iPhone is the World’s #1 CameraDon’t Be a Cryptic AssFaith PalmBurp 1.4 Will Su ...
  • Don’t Be a Cryptic Ass
    via i.imgur.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsObama and Jesus | ImgurHalley’s CometAnatidaephobiaReaganomicsThis is my Favorite PictureMilitant AtheistsGrades Perspective

Fitwatch

  • Alabama 3 Headline FITwatch BeneFIT Saturday 2 ...
    This Saturday 23rd April Brixton legends Alabama 3 will be playing an acoustic and unplugged live set, alongside DJ's from some of London's finest soundsystems at The Jamm, 261 Brixton Rd, London SW9 6LH. The event, starting at 8 till late, is on offer to FITwatchers and their friends at a mere ...
  • Liberty condone policing and condemn protesters.
    It’s not surprising, or in the least unexpected, but in a report they released yesterday, Liberty have made it quite clear their sympathies lie far more with the police than with any protester engaging in civil disobedience. The policing of the demonstration on the 26th March, said Liberty, was ...
  • Warning – Police Surveillance is Big Bus ...
    This is the second of a couple of posts written by Kevin Blowe in advance of the ‘Standing Up To Surveillance’ conference hosted by Fitwatch and Netpol on Sunday. It is reproduced by permission from his blog Random Blowe In January, I idly speculated in a piece for Red Pepper that groups who inc ...
  • Rethinking the politics of kettling
    This is the first of two articles written by Kevin Blowe in preparation for the 'Standing up to Surveillance' conference tomorrow, at which he is speaking. Reproduced from his blog Random Blowe with permission. An online campaign calling for a ban on kettling seems, on the face of it, like a com ...
  • Political Policing, UKUncut and 26 March
    Last Saturday the police charged 138 people for peacefully occupying Fortnum and Masons with aggravated trespass. Most were kept for over 24 hours, had their clothing and phones seized, and were given bail conditions preventing them attending the royal wedding or Mayday. Many commentators have c ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Happy Easter Sunday!
    Easter | Wikipedia Easter (Old English: Ēostre; Greek: Πάσχα, Paskha; Aramaic and Hebrew: פֶּסחא‎ Pasḥa,) is the central feast in the Christian liturgical year. According to the Canonical gospels, Jesus rose from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. His resurrection is celebrated on ...
  • Billionaires Who Want Higher Taxes
    Billionaires: Raise My Taxes! | The Daily Beast Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg told President Obama this week he would be “cool” with paying more taxes. From Bill Gates to Warren Buffett, see which other top earners are willing to give extra to Uncle Sam. Mark Zuckerberg and President Obama have som ...
  • Power Shift: How the Youth Climate Movement is ...
    by Sarah van Gelder | yesmagazine – The 10,000 young people who gathered in Washington, DC, for the third Power Shift came prepared to get things done. They traveled in groups from campuses, high schools, and neighborhoods across the country. They brought stories of campaigns to get local food o ...
  • Health Benefits of Green Living
    By Krista Peterson | WWH – âGoing greenâ is often presented as a sacrifice we have to make in order to help the world at large. However, living an environmentally-friendly lifestyle can have immediate benefits for the individual as well, particularly when it comes to health. Air Quality You may ...
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reference frame

  • Benjamin Netanyahu in Prague
    Today, Benjamin Netanyahu became the very first Israeli prime minister who visited the Czech Republic. Today, he met Mr Petr Nečas, his Czech counterpart. Tomorrow, he will have a lunch with President Klaus. Both prime ministers have vowed that Czechia and Israel wi ...
  • Grist: confess a sin against Earth
    I received an URL for a nice prankster website, Earthconfessions.com (click)On that website, you may enter your sin against the Earth - for example, you confess that you have just used natural gas to cook your lunch. Click to zoom in The website produces a nice postcard su ...
  • ATLAS memo: 4-sigma diphoton bump at LEP's 115 GeV
    An expectedly light Higgs boson could be showing up unexpectedly early at the LHC Jester at Resonaances discusses a leaked internal memo of the ATLAS Collaboration at the LHC. If the internal note is authentic, which is not guaranteed, ATLAS has analyzed 63.5/pb of data from ...
  • Portugal's bailout: panic is suddenly gone
    José Sócrates, an obnoxiously politically correct leader of Portugal with a somewhat arrogant surname, has changed his mind. His country needs a bailout, after all. The European Union, led by an equally Portuguese José Manuel Barroso and similar chaps, is reacting in a typical ...
  • Busch Campus suicide catalyzer indicted
    Between Fall 1997 and Fall 2001, I lived in a dormitory at the Busch Campus of Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey - in greater New Brunswick. That's where an act that is effectively a murder took place in September 2010. Chances are nonzero that the key events have occurred i ...

No Frakking Consensus

  • Ka-Ching! More Greenpeace Money
    One of the most senior authors for the upcoming climate bible has spent the past 17 years cashing cheques from Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund.
  • Clueless New IPCC Policy Ignores Advocacy Lite ...
    Proposed new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change guidelines single out blogs - declaring that they are not acceptable sources of information for IPCC Reports. Yet these same guidelines contain not one word about literature published by advocacy groups such as Greenpeace.
  • Speeding Tickets and the IPCC
    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has taken the time to write down some rules of the road. But it has never hired any traffic cops.
  • Citizen Audit Anniversary
    A year ago a group of volunteers from 12 countries struck a blow for truth-in-advertising. Our audit revealed that 1 in 3 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report references are to non-peer-reviewed literature. For years we've been told the climate bible bases its conclusions exclusively ...
  • The Missing Map
    In 2008, the United Nations Environment Programme published a map suggesting there'd be 50 million climate refugees by 2010. When a writer called attention to this failed prediction recently, the map disappeared.

Tarpley

  • Austerity Psychosis Grips Washington, D. C.
    Webster G. Tarpley Guns & Butter April 20, 2011 Obama’s budget speech at George Washington University on April 13th, 2011; the Fiscal 2011 Budget Resolution causes a revolt in DC; the Independent Payment Advisory Board as Death Panel; House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s genocidal Budget ...
  • Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia Gets Pakistani M ...
    Webster G. Tarpley on The Alex Jones Show Infowars April 20, 2011 download file
  • العربية
    International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Deutsch Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polska Português Rossiyu Svenska Türk Zhongwén باحث أمريكي: تنظيم القاعدة هو مجرد مخلوق للمخابرات الأمريكية الأمريكي Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net April 11, 2011 CIA Destabilizes Yemen, Libya using Al Qaeda as US Arab ...
  • Tarpley in Press TV Debate with Libyan Rebel S ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net April 15, 2011 This April 6th interview just recently became available. — webmaster
  • باحث أمريكي: تنظيم القاعدة هو مجرد مخلوق للمخا ...
    Webster G. Tarpley TARPLEY.net April 11, 2011 CIA Destabilizes Yemen, Libya using Al Qaeda as US Arab Legion; Benghazi Rebel Council Stages Massacres of Black Africans; African Union Mediation Spurned by Western Imperialists; Qaddafi Forces Superior to Rebels; NATO aims at Partition of Libya, wh ...

Modern Survivalism

  • Getting Back to Basics, Remedies
    Before the days of endless availability of products and high-tech remedies for things like cleaning, laundry, pest control and others, people had to make do with the materials that they had on hand. They were able to accomplish the same tasks that we deal with today, while using only a handful o ...
  • Bretton Woods II, Results Are IN
    A few weeks after the non publicized Soros sponsored Bretton Woods II event, the results are in – ‘America must give up on the dollar’. During the weekend of April 8, 2011, George Soros and 200 economists, finance experts and âscholarsâ met at the Mount Washington Resort with a mission. A missio ...
  • How To Achieve your Goals
    It is one thing to think about or talk about the things that we want to do – our goals, but it is quite another to actually do something about it and put the thoughts or talk into actions. I have had my own occasional issues of procrastination, like I’m sure most of us do. [...]
  • Top 10 Best Weather Radios, 2011
    List of Top 10 best selling Weather Radios in 2011 The list of ‘best’ weather radios has been updated for 2011 and chosen based on data available through Amazon.com.  The order is sorted by way of popularity. Especially during times of the year when severe storms, tornadoes, or hurricanes are l ...
  • Grocery Store Sale Items Cleaned Out
    Only because I was driving right by due to another errand, that I decided to stop at one of my usual grocery stores strictly for some sale items. I wanted to share this trip with you to heighten the awareness that inflation is now being recognized by the masses. I have noticed people taking adva ...

Fast Company

  • Could It Happen Here, Here, or There? A Map Of ...
    Nature News and Columbia University team up and produce a Google Earth map that makes nuclear risk stark.Nature News and Columbia University have joined forces to make a Google Earth map showing the world populations at risk from nuclear fallout. The interactive map combines data on population a ...
  • SimpleGeo Makes Location Data Free, Complicate ...
    SimpleGeo has placed 20 million locations for "places" in the public domain to drive developers of location-based service apps. The thing is that data, combined with location-tracking smartphones, could spark unsavory uses too.In a direct challenge to Foursquare's effort to become the "Rosetta s ...
  • Lend To Carbon-Cutting Entrepreneurs With Kiva ...
    Chances are, you've at least heard of Kiva, the microfinancing nonprofit that allows users to give bite-sized loans to entrepreneurs in poverty-stricken regions. Because people like to feel good by offering cash to worthy causes (or so we've heard), Kiva has done exceptionally well, funding $2 ...
  • An Electric Trike In The Trunk Makes For The U ...
    Chinese car firm Geely has a gift for you in the trunk of its electric McCar vehicle: A tiny electric trike that's actually charged as you drive the bigger car. It could be the perfect vehicle to solve city traffic problems.Geely's a bit of a surprising company in many ways: It bought Volvo cars ...
  • Work Smart: Viz Wiz Nicholas Felton Guides Us ...
    Making sense of our data-saturated world requires a combination of technical and design skill. Nicholas Felton, also known as Feltron, is among the most talented creators of information graphics and data visualizations working today. His Annual Reports -- the most recent of which is a visualizat ...

Jadaliyya

  • [The Military Council Approves Egypt's Additio ...
    رزحت ا�مجتمعات ا�عرب�ة �ع��د عدة تحت �طأة ا���ا��� ا�إستث�ائ�ة ا�م��دة ��حر�ات ا�س�اس�ة. �ذ�� ما أ� �امت ا�ث�رات �ا�ا�ت�اضات ا�عرب�ة ا�أخ�رة حت� تعرضت �ذ� ا���ا��� (�خاصة ��ا��� ا�ط�ارئ �محا�م�ا ا�ت� تعر� �� مصر بإسم محا�م أم� ا�د��ة ط�ارئ) إ�� �ج�م ع��� �� �ا�ة أرجاء ا�عا�م ا�عرب�� ما ...
  • Who Killed Vik?
    I never knew Vittorio �Vik� Arrigoni before his tragic death in Gaza City on 15 April 2011. I won�t pretend to piece together who Vik was or what lay behind his passions. But before he slips from the headlines to the footnotes, it is worth attempting to make an accounting of this terribl ...
  • Interview with Bassam Haddad on Developments i ...
    �AUDIO PLAYER BELOW A wave of protests have been shaking Syria since nearly the middle of March.The protests that began by calling for political reforms,escalated after the security forces opened fired on demonstrators in the southern city of Dar'a. Shahram Aghamir of Pacifaca's Voices ...
  • زمن عربي جديد [A New Arab Era]
    �م �تمر�ز ا�س�ر��� �� احد� ساحات دمش� �� �بدأ�ا م��ا ا�ت�اضت�م. �ا�ت ا�بدا�ة �� مد��ة درعا عاصمة م�ط�ة ح�را�� ثم اتخذت ش�� تحر�ات مت���ة م� ا��اذ��ة ا�� حمص ا�� ا��امش�� ا�� با��اس ا�� دمش� ا�� د�ما... ا�مش�د ا�س�ر� �خت�� ع� ا�مش�د �� ت��س ا� مصر ا� ا�بحر�� ا� ا��م� ا� ��ب�ا. �� ب�د ��ت ...
  • Revolutionary Tremors in Central Asia?
    On April 3rd, 2011 Kazakhstan held presidential elections. Nursultan Nazarbayev, in power since 1991, called these elections a year early after scrapping a plan to hold a national referendum that would do away with the inconvenience of regular presidential contests and which was to exten ...

mediagazer

  • KMOV puts Facebook to work covering airport to ...
    Cory Bergman / Lost Remote: KMOV puts Facebook to work covering airport tornado  —  When a tornado tore through St. Louis' airport and leveled a neighborhood Saturday night, KMOV-TV and KMOV.com went wall-to-wall with live coverage.  At the same time, the station's Facebook page kicked into hi ...
  • Picking On the Competition - IT was Pulitzer P ...
    Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times: Picking On the Competition  —  IT was Pulitzer Prize Day at The New York Times on Monday.  Hundreds had gathered in the third-floor newsroom and around the atrium balcony one floor above.  Spouses, parents and children of the winners were there, the mood fes ...
  • In Media's Wedding Frenzy, Hints of Viewer Fat ...
    Ravi Somaiya / New York Times: In Media's Wedding Frenzy, Hints of Viewer Fatigue  —  LONDON — When Prince William and Kate Middleton emerge from Westminster Abbey as a married couple next Friday, they will be greeted by hundreds of reporters from around the world.  But as the day draws near, ...
  • Elvis Mitchell Terminated As Chief Film Critic ...
    Nikki Finke / Deadline.com: Elvis Mitchell Terminated As Chief Film Critic Of Movieline Over Review Mystery  —  EXCLUSIVE: I've just been told that Penske Media Corp has terminated Elvis Mitchell after more than 3 months as Movieline.com's chief film critic.  The early end to his contract foll ...
  • On the Media: War photographers change their f ...
    James Rainey / Los Angeles Times: On the Media: War photographers change their focus  —  The deaths in Libya of Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros hit home with their fellow photojournalists.  —  Journalists take it as gospel that they have no higher calling than chronicling human suffering, p ...

Chemtrail News

  • 100000000 chemtrail activists - Discuss ...
    Welcome to a Facebook Page about 100000000 chemtrail activists. Join Facebook to start connecting with 100000000 chemtrail activists.www.facebook.com/pages/100000000.../183132381708610?...
  • ContrailsChemtrails is it all just conf ...
    I have just finished watching the Weather show on the BBC news channel and I was surprised to say the least when they explained chemtrailscontrails and the ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread692716/pg1
  • Chemtrails | Facebook
    Welcome to the Facebook Community Page about Chemtrails, a collection of shared knowledge concerning Chemtrails.www.facebook.com/pages/Chemtrails/110761535618801?ref...
  • Photos and Videos of Chemtrails over Sw ...
    Action is happening in Sweden in terms of public interest in chemtrail info via sites like chemtrailmonitor.com and Chemtrail Truth Sweden.aircrap.org/photos-and-videos-of-chemtrails.../331310/
  • Mythcluescom – Free Access To World Class Cons ...
    who is doing it Airforce pilots thats whono it is not weather modificationThe reason for the chemtrails is that it is chemicals falling down on usChemtrails ...www.mythclues.com/2011/04/21/chemtrails-pt1/

World News - Top Stories

  • Microwave ovens; Why do we have them?
    Their have been a lot of great innovative inventions in the last 40 years in the kitchen, and the microwave oven is at the top of the list. Whether you need a hot dog heated up in less than a minute, defrost a roast or want to make a quick meal, the microwave has changed the way we eat as a ...
  • Javier Hernandez: The Premier League's Mi ...
    By GABRIELE MARCOTTI View Full Image Associated Press Javier Hernandez has a knack for scoring late goals for Manchester United, one of four Champions League semifinalists. English soccer has two versions of the Footballer of the Year award, the equivalent of a Most Valuable Player honor. T ...
  • Kubica leaves hospital
    14:45, Apr 24 2011 � Formula One driver Robert Kubica has been released from hospital in Italy to continue his rehabilitation from serious injuries sustained in a rallying accident in February. Kubica has spent the past 10 weeks at the Santa Corona Hospital in Pietra Ligure after sustaining ...
  • South Sudan clashes between army and mili ...
    At least 57 people have been killed in fighting between government forces and a rebel militia in South Sudan, officials have said. South Sudan army spokesman Brig Malaak Ayuen said dozens were also wounded in the clashes in the state of Jonglei. The local authorities accuse...
  • Eat wheat flour and almonds to satisfy hu ...
    Want to know the trick to control hunger pangs? Here is the clue. Eating wheat flour and almonds increases the feeling of fullness, leading to reduced food intake and preventing overeating. "Although it may affect people at different times throughout the day, reducing or satisfying those hu ...

no frakking consensus

  • Ka-Ching! More Greenpeace Money
    One of the most senior authors for the upcoming climate bible has spent the past 17 years cashing cheques from Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund.
  • Clueless New IPCC Policy Ignores Advocacy Lite ...
    Proposed new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change guidelines single out blogs - declaring that they are not acceptable sources of information for IPCC Reports. Yet these same guidelines contain not one word about literature published by advocacy groups such as Greenpeace.
  • Speeding Tickets and the IPCC
    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has taken the time to write down some rules of the road. But it has never hired any traffic cops.
  • Citizen Audit Anniversary
    A year ago a group of volunteers from 12 countries struck a blow for truth-in-advertising. Our audit revealed that 1 in 3 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report references are to non-peer-reviewed literature. For years we've been told the climate bible bases its conclusions exclusively ...
  • The Missing Map
    In 2008, the United Nations Environment Programme published a map suggesting there'd be 50 million climate refugees by 2010. When a writer called attention to this failed prediction recently, the map disappeared.

Pointman's

  • America is throwing another Tea party.
    For those of you not aware of it, there is a grass-roots movement in America called the Tea party that in its two scant years of existence has become significantly influential. It is not as such a political party but rather a loose collection of diverse individuals. It seems to me that they repr ...
  • Food for the Wolf
    Once upon a time there was a mangy old wolf who liked to eat a pig once in a while. People blamed the poor devil terribly for what was after all, just his nature. They made up horrible stories about him eating piglets, cats, dogs, barns, little girls and anything else they could think of … Read more
  • So, where are we now with global warming?
    Politicians world-wide got into the âsave the planetâ business for two reasons; electorates were convinced the planet needed saving and would vote for candidates who said theyâd do just that and wouldnât vote for candidates who said it was all hysteria, which it was and which most of them knew i ...
  • Living with ghosts.
    This is going to be a tough post and Iâm a bit afraid. Itâs personal and important and I really want to get it right for a lot of reasons. Itâs about the crap times of a life. A lot of us go through times in our lives which are difficult or simply horrible and … Read more
  • Words, ideas, primary sources, history and a b ...
    I write and I read books. Either of those activities will inevitable lead you to think about the nature of the written word. Up until quite recently, it was the only way your thoughts and ideas could survive your death without any sort of distortion. Nobody was half-remembering, interpreting wha ...

Journalists' Toolkit

  • The best video export options
    How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
  • Video Resources updated
    The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching video in ...
  • Flash Journalism updates
    I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...
  • New tutorial: Windows Live Movie Maker
    As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less versatile in several w ...
  • Convert WMA files with Switch
    Switch Sound File Converter is a free program from NCH Software. You can download it here (Mac or Windows). I have been using this program and recommending it widely for about two years. It’s easy to use, and it’s especially useful for converting WMA format files to WAV so that we can edit them ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Gulf Coast Activists And Yes Men Impersonate B ...
    From our friends at Louisiana Bucket Brigade: Attendees of the “ Gulf Coast Leadership Summit” received a pleasant surprise this morning upon hearing a representative from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announce a ban on toxic dispersants -- as well as a free health ca ...
  • Fishers gather to Commemorate Anniversary
    On the Anniversary of the explosion at the Deepwater Horizon that marked the beginning of the BP Drilling Disaster, fishers and advocates gathered in Palquemines Parish to send the message that recovery for them and their communities is still a long way away. Among those at the gathering were B ...
  • Guestworkers Win Victory in US Department of L ...
    From our friends at the Alliance of Guestworkers for Dignity: Proposed DOL regulations move guestworkers one step closer to inclusion in basic labor protections, civil rights, and the right to organize Statement by the Alliance of Guestworkers for Dignity on the Department of Labor’s Proposed H ...
  • Native American Student Suspended for Refusal ...
    From our friends at ACLU of Louisiana: In a fight for religious freedom, the ACLU of Louisiana has enrolled to represent a Native American student at Juban Parc Junior High School in Denham Springs, LA. Seth Chaisson, a member of the United Houma Nation, grows his hair long for cultural and ...
  • Justice Department Report, Released Today, Cal ...
    An earlier version of this article originally appeared on ColorLines.com Eve is a transgender woman living in rural southern Louisiana. She was molested as a child and left home as a teenager. Homeless and alone, she was forced to trade sex for survival. While still a teenager, she was arrested ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    The Black and Jew alliance was not limited to the civil rights movement in America. Jews and Blacks also joined forces in South Africa to overthrow White rule there. I bet some of you multi-culturalists are happy about that. What you don't realize is that South Africa under apartheid was 100x b ...
  • Health, Poisons, Diseases, Drugs • Re: Possibl ...
    Some research on Cannabinoids and Gliomas: http://www.bbm1.ucm.es/cannabis/archivo ... 4-1385.pdf Amphiregulin Is a Factor for Resistance of Glioma Cells to Cannabinoid-Induced Apoptosis MAR LORENTE, ARKAITZ CARRACEDO, SOF IA TORRES, FRANCESCO NATALI, AINARA EGIA, SONIA HERNA NDEZ-TIEDRA, MA ...
  • Health, Poisons, Diseases, Drugs • Re: Possibl ...
    Spice: Getting High on Synthetic Cannabinoids Chris Goldstein Thursday, 04 March 2010 05:33 The new street drug Spice or K2 is increasingly causing a stir. Spice users seek an undetectable marijuana-like high and the product may be delivering. On Wednesday, it was officially banned in Ireland ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    sirbadman wrote: Lets see, I think its stupid to bag out blacks for being blacks because, well they didn't fcking choose to be blacks did they? Let's change the word "blacks" to "Jews" and see if your argument holds up: sirbadman wrote: Lets see, I think its stupid to bag out jews for being ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    sirbadman wrote: Lets see, I think its stupid to bag out blacks for being black because, well they didn't fcking choose to be black did they? Likewise, I'm not proud of being white either, because I had nothing to fucking do with it. Would that make me a pro-marxist then yomama? Fucking tool. W ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • 657 New Barrier Islands Identified in Global S ...
    A new global survey of the world’s barrier islands has identified 657 more islands than previously thought, including a 54-island chain that runs along the edges of mangrove forest off the Brazilian coast. Using satellite NASABrazil's Gurupi River delta images, topographical maps and navigationa ...
  • Populations of American Pikas Going Extinct As ...
    Extinction rates of American pikas have increased nearly five-fold over the last decade within the Great Basin region of the western U.S., and the climate-sensitive species is moving to higher elevations at a rate Photo by Donald M. Jones/Minden PicturesAn American pika 11 times faster than dur ...
  • Global Market for E-Scooters and E-Motorcycles ...
    The global market for electric motorcycles and scooters is expected to surge, with the number of vehicles projected to jump from 17 million in 2011 to more than 138 million by 2017, according to a new report. The two-wheel electric vehicles, which are already popular across Asia, will become inc ...
  • Reserve to Save Asian ‘Unicorn’ Established in ...
    The government of Vietnam has created a 39,000-acre reserve to protect the elusive saola, a critically endangered two-horned antelope-like mammal known locally as the “Asian unicorn.” The saola, or Pseudoryx nghetinhensis, which is described as a primitive AP/WWFA saola member of the bovine fa ...
  • One Year Later: Assessing the Lasting Impact o ...
    On the anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, the worst fears about the long-term damage from the oil spill have not been realized. But the big challenge is more fundamental: repairing the harm from the dams, levees, and canals that are devastating the Mississippi Delta and the Louisian ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • SUN TV Snooze Network
    By Montreal Simon Well I finally got a chance to watch Sun TV Nooz. After calling my cable channel to make sure I wasn't paying for it eh? And all I can say is they should change the name of Ezra Levant's show from The Source to The Sauce. Because anyone who ...
  • It’s a stag, not an orgy
    by Jodi A. Shaw William and Kate this, Royal Wedding that. Kate Middleton had a Dirty Dancing themed stagette, while Prince William’s bachelor party is rumoured to have had a water theme: speed boats and wakeboarding and a boat-borne pub crawl. Sounds like fun. But while I doubt Will spen ...
  • Is Trost right again?
    By Alison@Creekside Con MP and anti-abortion crusader Brad Trost, who lists being a member of the cross-party Pro-Life Caucus as one of his duties as an MP on his website, addressed the Saskatchewan Pro-Life Association’s annual convention on Saturday and thanked its members for their help in ...
  • iKnow Where You Were Last Summer
    by Eric Pettifor iPhones log date and location of every call they make. This is true of phones running the iOS 4 update of June, 2010. The data sits there on the phone. It is not transmitted to Apple, so the charge cannot be made that Apple is ...
  • Dmitri Soudas in “Con the Waterfront”
    By Montreal Simon Oh.My.Goomba. I don't know how Harper's parrot chihuahua Dimitri Soudas managed to dodge the summons from the Ethics Committee. But maybe they some higher authority could issue another one, and ask him to explain this latest scandal. An investigation by Radio-Canada su ...

Daily Beast

  • End the Government's Lottery Monopoly
    Why are states allowed to be in the gambling business and lock out the private sector? Stephen L. Carter on why state-run lotteries are bad for taxpayers, the poor, casinos, and bettors. In case you missed it, the shares of European companies that...
  • Great Weekend Reads
    This weekend: a novel of confused religion, one man looks out for fires in the American West, how Hollywood went mad on communism, and the lessons from Hezbollah's wars. A Faith Without Boundaries In a time when it is fashionable to define ourselves...
  • Trump and Bachmann Woo GOP Voters in South Car ...
    The Palmetto State has picked the GOP nominee every year since it began holding the first-in-the-South primary in 1980. Patricia Murphy visits and finds lots of love for two unlikely candidates. When Rich Bolen introduced Haley Barbour at South...
  • Inside the Shadowy World of Phone-Hacking
    The British paper the News of the World is in hot water for illegally intercepting the phone calls of dozens of bold-faced names. Bill Coles on how a tabloid tactic could bring down an industry. Considering that it was printed in Britain's...
  • Animal Rights: Saving Chinese Dogs From the Co ...
    In China, where stewed dog appears on restaurant menus regularly, being an animal-rights activist can be a risky proposition. Last Friday an animal-rights activist spotted a truck full of dogs on a highway outside of Beijing. He swerved his car in...

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Miyazaki's Cole displays fortitude by sticking ...
    For every expansion team, its inaugural season is a series of highs and lows. There's the exhaustion and enthusiasm that it takes to build a team from scratch and the growing pains that go with it. And it's never an easy task. To complicate matters, the expansion Miyazaki Shining Suns, have be ...
  • Lotus Stutra enlightenment
    Gene Reeves is just the kind of preacher-teacher I like, one who lays his wares out, takes a step back and lets you appraise what he has to offer without obligation. Buddhism, like all religions, is best appreciated when free of enforcement, and the sound and fury of the zealous. Originating ...
  • Miyagi aquarium, zoo reopen after disaster
    An aquarium and a zoo in Miyagi Prefecture reopened Saturday for the first time since being closed by the March 11 mega-quake and tsunami. The Marinepia Matsushima Aquarium in the town of Matsushima lost its beavers, globefish, tropical fish and jellyfish after its circulation pump, which cont ...
  • Mikura: Tokyo's island of natural wonders
    Last week, while much of the metropolis continued to reel from aftershocks following the March 11 megaquake, and worries about radiation leaks from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear reactors lurked in most people's minds, there was a part of Tokyo blissfully removed from all that madness. That was ...
  • Sanchez loses no-hit bid in ninth
    The toll from throwing 123 pitches showed on Anibal Sanchez. The Florida Marlins right-hander wore one big bag of ice on his right shoulder, another on his right arm and yet another on his right thigh as he settled into a chair with a grimace. Trying to throw a no-hitter is hard.

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • How to Help the Long Term Unemployed
     The OECD have weighed in on what policy measures are needed to limit the damage of long term unemployment in the aftermath of the Great Recession. I would judge the NDP platform – which includes a significant job creation tax credit and increased EI benefits – to be closest to the OECD prescri ...
  • The Polls and the Proles
    The polls are suggesting a Harper majority may be in the cards, but they may be counting out the wild card in this deck: young people. How do polls work? Pollsters call people.  On land lines. Who answers land lines?  Not many young people anymore.  They’re constantly connected through their cel ...
  • The Cost of Doubling CPP
    Barrie McKenna’s appraisal of party positions in the Globe today wrongly assumes that the NDP proposal to double CPP benefits would require a doubling of CPP premiums. The current combined employee/employer premium rate of just under 10% of covered earnings was set a few years back to make up fo ...
  • No More Tough-on-Crime
    About 40% of the Harper government’s recent legislative agenda was devoted to crime laws. Most of these would have created new offences and mandated longer sentences. The Conservative government said this was the way to get violent, repeat offenders off the streets and to fight “guns, gangs and ...
  • Electing to House Canadians – or Not?
    Little has been said by the political parties about housing in the lead up to the federal election on May 2. This is surprising, considering that approximately 1.27 million households (or 12.4 percent of Canadian households) live in housing that requires major repairs, is overcrowded, and/or cos ...

ReDress

  • US weapons to Israel are disincentives to peace
    Against the background of Israel's contempt for international law and violations of Palestinian human rights, and as Washington now considers raising the debt ceiling and making even more substantial cuts to the 2012 budget, Josh Ruebner argues that "the moral, financial and political costs of a ...
  • Pro-Israel pressure on law conference threaten ...
    Cecilie Surasky highlights the threat to freedom of speech in the United States posed by mainstream Jewish organizations who are going all out to silence all criticism or debate of Israeli policies, even by Jews and Israelis.
  • Middle East peace process: dead as Monty Pytho ...
    Stuart Littlewood considers the possible scenarios open to the Palestinians in the coming months in view of the death - some would say the stillbirth - of the "peace process", from UN membership to the collapse of the Palestinian National Authority and "new openings and possibilities, a new logi ...
  • BBC governing body hails "pretentious propagan ...
    Richard Lightbown is surprised to learn from the BBC Trust - the governing body of Britain's state broadcaster - that it considered Panorama's "Death in the Med" documentary to have "performed a valuable public service".
  • Transformed by truth: Richard Forer's journey ...
    Paul J. Balles charts the journey of Richard Forer, an American Jew brought up on Israeli propaganda, who had his early beliefs challenged by friends and, consequently, embarked on an honest study of the facts of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. As a result, he underwent a monumental transforma ...
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